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Walter William Law [nb 1] (November 13, 1837 – January 17, 1924) was a businessman and the founder of the 8,000-person village of Briarcliff Manor, New York.He was a vice president of furniture and carpet retailer W. & J. Sloane, and later founded the Briarcliff Lodge, the Briarcliff Table Water Company, Briarcliff Farms, and the Briarcliff Greenhouses.
The Briarcliff Lodge was a luxury resort in the village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. It was a notable example of Tudor Revival architecture, and was one of the largest wooden structures in the United States. It was also the first hotel in Westchester County. [1] Walter William Law had it built on his estate, and the Law family owned it until ...
Briarcliff Farms was a farm established in 1890 by Walter William Law in Briarcliff Manor, a village in Westchester County, New York. One of several enterprises established by Law at the turn of the 20th century, the farm was known for its milk, butter, and cream and also produced other dairy products, American Beauty roses , bottled water, and ...
Briarcliff Manor (/ ˈ b r aɪ. ər k l ɪ f /) is a suburban village in Westchester County, New York, 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City.It is on 5.9 square miles (15 km 2) of land on the east bank of the Hudson River, geographically shared by the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining.
Briarcliff Farms was one of the first producers of certified milk in the U.S., and Law's Jerseys produced about 4,500 US quarts (4,300 litres) of milk daily. [18] As many as 8,000 roses were shipped from Briarcliff Greenhouses daily, most to New York City. [13] Law developed the village, establishing schools, churches, parks and the Briarcliff ...
South State Road home of Michael Weiss and Kazuko Idemitsu-Weiss in Briarcliff Manor. The couple is charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death there ...
A human torso was found inside a suitcase that was floating in the East River near Governor’s Island on Wednesday evening, according to cops and law enforcement sources.
Walter William Law (July 15, 1871 in Westchester County, New York – August 26, 1958) was an American lawyer and politician from Briarcliff Manor, New York. [1] He was President of Briarcliff Manor from 1905 to 1918; [2] he later served in the New York State Legislature and then as President of the New York State Tax Commission.