John Thain‘s financial acumen helped him win jobs running the New York Stock Exchange and Merrill Lynch but it didn’t make him lucky in real estate at the legendary 740 Park cooperative. Thain bought Enid Annenberg Haupt’s jewel box penthouse on the building’s 17th floor in 2006 for $27.5 million, listed it for sale in 2018 at $39.5 million, but was forced to chop the price and only finally disposed of it last month for $28 million, a meagre $500,000 gain. The buyer, and latest member of the 740 owner’s club, is Hampton Barringer Luzak of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, who has worked in advertising, client relations, fashion journalism and as a casting director in independent films. She is also a mother and dedicated rescuer of dogs. Her husband Kevin Luzak, a private equity and investment manager, was formerly CEO of Coastal Forest Resources Co., which had previously been run by Hampton’s father and grandfather, who were hardwood industry legends. Their son is named for General Wade Hampton, her great-grand-uncle. A prominent family in North Carolina, the Barringers’ line is notable for Victor Clay Barringer, a judge at the international court of appeals in Alexandria, Egypt, who was previously a founder of the First North Carolina Cavalry Regiment of the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and once loaned his home to President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy, and his older brother Brig. General Rufus Clay Barringer, who met Abraham Lincoln after he was captured and imprisoned in Virginia during that war. Lincoln requested the encounter, allegedly saying, “You know, I have never seen a real live rebel general in uniform.” Two weeks later, when Lincoln was assassinated, General Barringer was questioned after one of his cards was found in the president’s jacket. Barringer was freed in August 1865 after taking an Oath of Allegiance to the Union. Steve Schwarzman will be at her door any moment with a Howdy, Neighbor casserole dish!