An epic estate long owned by former media executive John D. “Jack” Phillips is now on the market for the first time in almost two decades in the north neighborhood, just west of Chastain Park, at $25 million.

Should the place go for anywhere near that amount, it would be one of the region’s most expensive residential transactions ever recorded, eclipsing the nearly all-cash sale of a nearby home on Tuxedo Road in early 2024. A full-on replica of the nation’s White House that just hit the market for is currently the priciest offering in the area.

Records show Phillips acquired the compound with his wife, Cheryl, in 2008 for around $4 million. The couple subsequently completed the landscape design and added crushed slate trails that Jack uses for driving a golf cart around the property

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