John Jacob Astor IV went down with the Titanic, but his Stanford White-designed estate in Rhinebeck, New York survives him.

Stanford White's great-grandson Sam White has fully restored the place.

And now it can be yours for a mere $12 million!

Design architect Laura Dunn explains:

The [house] captures the grandeur of American aristocracy in a single room (main hall: 35 by 60 feet) with 15' ceilings, a domed skylight, elaborate ornamental plasterwork, Ionic columns and French doors that open to an indoor clay tennis court.

The house also includes a Middle Eastern-inspired swimming pool with turquoise vaulted ceiling and Corinthian columns. You have to love an architect who can design 'high drama' with a sporty edge.

In 1902, Stanford White achieved such success with Astor Courts, which designed for entertaining weekend guests of John Jacob Astor IV...that is, before he went down with the Titanic.

Most recently, architect Sam White - the great-grandson of Stanford White - restored the drama to Astor Courts, once called the Ferncliff Casino or Astor Casino (an architectural term for sporting facilities) for Kathleen Hammer and Arthur Seelbinder. It must be in the architect's blood.

The architecture screams playhouse for country club types. With all its grandeur wrapped in a facade inspired by the Grand Trianon at Versailles, it is the scale of White's signature decorative elements thatmakes the main hall feel livable. Therefore, after a game of tennis or a swim in the pool you feel - comfortable - in a space where the walls are dressed in history...ready to accommodate your next black-tie event along the Hudson.