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. Also known as Yon Comis Island, Rogers bears a 27-room Tudor mansion, with

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s and a caretaker's residence on a estate valued at $15.41 million. It sold in 2003 for $22.3 million to Christine Stoecklein Svenningsen, widow of party goods magnate John Svenningsen. It sold again, most recently, in August 2018 for $21.5 million. It was listed again for sale in May 2024 for an asking price of $35 million, with no buyer yet.

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Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimbles
', "New Haven Register", January 22, 2006, page A1 *

'; Stacey Stowe; "In the Region/Connecticut", ''

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'', July 30, 2006; Real Estate page 10. ;Specific {{Connecticut-geo-stub Thimble Islands Long Island Sound

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