themselves", Payson told The Observer, "I would not show it to any developer. He said that his life's ambition was to live in that manor, but it was very clear at the closing that they had no intention of living in it. They are the most awful people I have ever heard of, and that includes terrorists and dictators. They have taken a work of art and permitted it to be totally decimated. It was in pristine condition when I left ... He let it fall apart. He stripped everything out that he could sell, which is sacrilegious. I went by the house perhaps two years after we sold it, and that's when I realized how he was going to get around the town's objections. Broken windows, storming in—it's sinful". In 2011, the home was demolished and the property was subdivided. References Further reading Kahn, E. J. The World of Swope: A Biography of Herbert Bayard Swope (1965) Lewis, Alfred Allan. Man of the World: Herbert Bayard Swope, a Charmed Life of Pulitzer Prizes, Poker and Politics'' 1978) External links Short biography of Swope's son, Herbert Bayard Swope Jr. 1882 births 1958 deaths Pulitzer Prize for Reporting winners American male journalists American investigative journalists American newspaper editors Writers from St. Louis People from Sands Point, New York Algonquin Round Table