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The grounds contain two castle-like buildings; Hempstead House is the main house (approx 50,000 square feet), and a larger house known as Castle Gould (approx 100,000 square feet). The main house measures 225 ft long (69 m), 135 ft wide (41 m) and has three floors containing 40 rooms, punctuated by an 80-foot tower (24 m). [2]
Beacon Towers was a Gilded Age mansion on Sands Point in the village of Sands Point on the North Shore of Long Island, New York.It was built from 1917 to 1918 for Alva Belmont, the ex-wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt and the widow, since 1908, of Oliver Belmont.
Part of the Long Island campus of St. John's University [57] Burrwood 1898–1899 Carrère and Hastings: Long Island: One of the Gold Coast Mansions, has been torn down more images: Henry W. Poor House (also known as Poor's Palace and Woodland) 1899: Jacobean: T. Henry Randall: Tuxedo Park: Later owned by Henry Morgan Tilford [58] more images ...
Here are all of the historic houses featured in The Gilded Age—including The Breakers, Marble House, Lyndhurst Mansion, and more in New York and Rhode Island.
This category contains articles related to mansions on the North Shore of Long Island. Pages in category "Mansions of Gold Coast, Long Island" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
The mansion, built by Kahn between 1914 and 1919, is the largest private home in New York, and the second largest in the United States, comprising 127 rooms and over 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m 2), as originally configured. It is said to be built on the highest point on Long Island. [2] The castle is now a hotel with 32 guest rooms and suites. It ...
Attention Gatsby wannabes: If you always hankered after a waterfront mansion or storied estate home on Long Island's glitzy North Shore -- the Gold Coast that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The ...
The North Shore of Long Island is the area along the northern coast of New York's Long Island bordering Long Island Sound. Known for its extreme wealth and lavish estates, the North Shore exploded into affluence at the turn of the 20th century, earning it the nickname the Gold Coast . [ 1 ]