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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.
Grey Gardens is a 14-room [1] house at 3 West End Road and Lily Pond Lane in the Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.It was the residence of the Beale family from 1924 to 1979, including mother-daughter Edith Ewing Bouvier and Edith Bouvier Beale from 1952 to 1977.
In its long history, the mansion has served as a private residence, a college administrative building, a movie set, and a fraternity house (yes, really!). Hart Cluett Museum: Troy, New York View ...
In true gilded age fashion, the show was filmed exclusively in Rhode Island and New York, at recognizable jewels like the Breakers, Marble House, Lyndhurst Mansion, and many other grand properties.
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 ...
Winfield Hall, like many other Long Island mansions, has ghostlore associated with it. [5] It is said that on the evening of May 2, 1917, as Edna Woolworth Hutton, Frank Woolworth's middle daughter, took her own life at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, while her father was at Winfield Hall hosting a party, a somewhat bizarre and unexplained incident occurred.
During the 1920s and 1930s, there were several movie studios in Astoria, and many movie stars lived in Bayside, some in posh homes. After the end of World War II , residential development of Bayside increased dramatically, particularly because of its station on the Long Island Rail Road 's Port Washington Branch , where a commuter could ride ...