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Business Spotlight: Family laments sale of historic home, but says it’ll be in good hands

Posted by The Coastal Star on October 1, 2025 at 11:22

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Family of the late Robert Ganger has sold the historic Vanderbilt home in Gulf Stream (above) for $21.6 million. An adjacent property once part of the estate sold in 2023. Photo provided

By Jane Musgrave

Five months after businessman-turned-historic

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Obituary: Robert Ward Ganger

Posted by The Coastal Star on April 30, 2025 at 12:07

By Ron Hayes

GULF STREAM — On Easter Sunday 1969, Robert Ganger and his father explored a Gulf Stream mansion they found to be dilapidated, covered with mold, and empty.

13541561892?profile=RESIZE_180x180Miradero, the former home of Lila Vanderbilt Webb, granddaughter of railroad mag

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