A 12-acre piece of land with a 19,000-square-foot mansion on the 37-acre Long Island estate that was the home of Madame Chiang Kai-shek is under contract for its asking price of $11.8 million, and another part of the estate with an 8,000 square-foot house on six acres is now for sale at $4.9 million.

The 12-acre property was on the market for 18 days. The house was built in 2004. It has nine bedrooms, nine bathrooms, six fireplaces, a movie theatre, billiards room, gym and sauna. The parcel also has a barn and carriage house, both of which were at one time owned by Madame Chiang.

Jason Friedman, whose firm Friedman Team represented the sellers of the house on 12 acres, said a confidentiality agreement prevented him from disclosing details about the purchaser.

Located in Lattingtown, Long Island, 30 miles from Manhattan, the 37-acre estate was sold in 1998 and divided into three pieces of approximately 18 acres, 12 acres and 6 acres.

The six-acre property now for sale has a Hamptons-style house with five bedrooms and 6.5 baths. Showings of the house were to start Monday.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek lived for two decades in a house on the 18-acres until the estate was sold. She then moved to an apartment in Manhattan. Her house was sold and renovated after the entire 37-acre estate was acquired.

Madame Chiang died in 2003 at the age of 106.

A devout Christian educated at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she was born in southern China and married Chiang Kai-shek in 1927.

Her elder sister, Soong Ching-ling, married Dr Sun Yat-sen, a forerunner of the Chinese revolution and the founder of the Republic of China (1912-1949). She was elected the vice-president and honorary president of the People's Republic of China for her great contributions made to the Chinese revolution.

Soong Ai-ling, another sister of Madame Chiang, married Kung Hsiang-hsi, the Nationalist financial minister, a tycoon in the Republic of China.

In 1949, Madame Chiang fled to Taiwan. When Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975, she left Taiwan and settled on the Long Island estate.

hezijiang@chinadailyusa.com