This Mansion From Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" Music Video Just Sold for $8.25 Million
This story was originally published on 6/28/2021; it has been updated to reflect new information.
Plenty of Taylor Swift fans would agree that her music video for “Blank Space” is one of her best. This is largely thanks to its notably over-the-top filming locations—and one of the two mansions featured in the famed video just sold, for $8.25 million. It was most recently listed for $9.995 million.
While many Swifties may know that Oheka Castle takes center stage in the video—mainly its exterior—another Long Island home is also featured throughout: Woolworth Mansion, AKA Winfield Hall. This Glen Cove, Long Island, dwelling was once on the market for $19.95 million and was set to be auctioned off last July for at least $7 million, but it failed to sell.
American architect C.P.H. Gilbert designed Winfield Hall—which was built between 1915 and 1916—for entrepreneur Frank Winfield Woolworth. Oddly enough, Gilbert also designed a Manhattan residence for the original owner of Oheka Castle, Otto Kahn.
In 1979, Woolworth Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places, which ensures that this structure cannot be demolished. In total, this 32,098-square-foot mansion boasts an impressive 12 bedrooms—and its 16+ acre estate also includes a clock tower building complete with 15,000 square feet of garage space (which is enough room to fit 11 cars!).
Last summer's auction was made possible by the estate of Martin T. Carey, a historic preservationist who owned Winfield Hall for 42 years, from 1978 until his death last year. He helped preserve numerous historic mansions in Long Island and Newport, Rhode Island throughout his life, including another Glen Cove gem—known as Cashelmara—which sold at auction last year.
So, what parts of Woolworth Mansion were featured in the “Blank Space” music video? Most notably, the incredibly opulent Music Room (which was used as the dining room in the video), as well as the first floor hallway (where Swift can be seen losing her mind in a cheetah ensemble, in front of a marble fireplace) and a wallpaper-paneled room to the left of the mansion’s front entrance, wherein Swift and model Sean O'Pry dance in black-tie ensembles.
And although it's been more than seven years since the video was shot here back in 2014, a small remnant from T-Swift herself is still present in the mansion. On one of the first steps of the marble staircase—a few feet from the main entrance—is a piece of tape that reads “S-60,” along with an arrow indicating where the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter should stand while filming a scene for the video. According to a realtor at an open house for Winfield Hall, the “60” presumably refers to the 60 second mark of a scene.
Winfield Hall's listing—which was held by Margaret Trautmann of Compass—can be found here.
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