Q92: Victoria's Best Music Station » bert brodsky http://kqvt.com Victoria's Best Music Station Fri, 24 May 2013 10:58:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 'Great Gatsby' House Torn Down [VIDEO] http://kqvt.com/%e2%80%98great-gatsby%e2%80%99-house-torn-down-video/ http://kqvt.com/%e2%80%98great-gatsby%e2%80%99-house-torn-down-video/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:30:48 +0000 Amory Gritta http://kqvt.com/?p=2376 The home that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write eternal high school English class assignment 'The Great Gatsby' has been torn down, according to reports.

'Lands End' was a grand mansion on Long Island's North Shore, which was built by a newspaper publisher in 1902.

For a period of time during the '20s, Fitzgerald lived across the bay from Lands End, and would watch the lavish, celebrity-filled parties which took place within its confines. He later incorporated many of these observation into 'The Great Gatsby.'

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