Blaine Trump held on to a Greek Revival house in the Millbrook hunt country through a marriage, its ending and a brother-in-law’s presidency, then sold it with a party barn, a private cinema and a parcel nobody had advertised.
Before the Trumps
Blaine Trump has sold her house in Millbrook after more than three decades. The house had done some travelling before it ever met her. It is a Greek Revival mansion dating to 1830. According to the listing, in 1989 a previous owner moved it about 40 miles from Hudson and renovated it piece by piece on new ground in Dutchess County. Most people who buy a period house in the Hudson Valley accept the view that comes with it. This one chose its view afterwards.
The new ground lies in what the listing calls the Millbrook Hunt Country, about 90 minutes from New York City. Close enough to Manhattan for a Friday departure, it is far enough away that the drive becomes part of the weekend. The house that settled there is an 1830 design with columns and proportions meant for the old river town it left behind, and it seems to have taken to the move without complaint.
Early nineties, Shunpike Road
Blaine and Robert Trump bought the estate in 1992, three years into the house’s second life. The address was 406 Shunpike Road, and for most of the next generation the name on it was Trump.
Robert was Donald Trump’s youngest brother. Blaine, born Blaine Beard, was a socialite and philanthropist, and she came to the marriage with a son from an earlier one, Christopher Hollister Trump-Retchin. Robert had no children of his own. He helped to raise the boy and gave him his surname, which is a more permanent gift than most stepfathers manage and a good deal more permanent than a country house.
A Greek Revival house in Millbrook suited the arrangement. It had a centre hall, a long approach and plenty of room for a family that was partly inherited and partly assembled. That is how a great many good families are put together.
A marriage ends, a house stays
The marriage ended in the late 2000s. Accounts put the divorce anywhere from 2008 to 2010, and the details have stayed private.
Millbrook stayed with Blaine. So did the surname, at least in print: the reports of this autumn’s sale call her Blaine Trump, as the society pages always did. Robert married again, and his second wife was Ann Marie Pallan.
When Robert died
Robert Trump died on 15 August 2020, aged 71, as Fox News reported. His brother was in the White House at the time. He was survived by Ann Marie Pallan. The boy he had helped to raise still carried his name, at the front of a double barrel.
The house in Millbrook belonged by then to the previous chapter, as country houses often do after a divorce. It was neither in the family nor out of it. Blaine kept it for more than six years after Robert’s death. Whatever else that says, it shows how attached a person can grow to 1830 joinery that has already moved once.
Autumn 2025
On 24 September 2025 the estate went on the market at $8.8 million, with Michael Passaro of Douglas Elliman handling the listing. Corcoran’s listing page gave it a name it had not much needed before, the Linley House Estate. It described a Greek Revival centre hall colonial on more than 113 pastoral acres, spread across three parcels.
The rest of the particulars read like the plan for a very long house party. There was a heated Gunite pool, tennis and basketball courts, a fitness centre and a party barn. There was also a 16-seat cinema with its own concession stand. Somebody, at some point, had to decide on the sweets. A cinema can be a vanity. A cinema with a counter for selling popcorn expects a crowd.
None of this is unusual in Dutchess County, where an estate without a barn for parties is often thought slightly underdressed. What set the house apart was the sequence: an 1830 building, a 1989 relocation and a 1992 purchase. Nor was this its first time on the market: according to The Richest, Blaine first listed the estate in 2012 at $17.5 million, and it failed to sell.
Early November, a record
Patch reported the sale in the first week of November 2026 at $10.45 million. That made it the highest price in the Millbrook post office area for more than two years, and the third highest in Millbrook’s history.
The price came in above the asking price, and the reason is simpler than a bidding war. The sale took in an adjacent parcel that had never been part of the listing. The estate that changed hands runs to 197.51 acres, against the little over 113 that were advertised, around a house of 8,244 sq ft. The sale beat the ask because the estate grew.
Passaro of Douglas Elliman and Andrew Gates of Houlihan Lawrence were the brokers on the deal. That adds up to two firms, one record, and a buyer who has not been named.
Blaine Trump has said nothing in public about letting the place go. The house came all the way from Hudson to get here, and it is staying put.
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