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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 ...
In 2003, Elite Hotels, a limited liability company formed by C. Dean Metropoulos, bought the property, then called The Castle at Tarrytown for $10.9 million, according to a newspaper article at the time, which described it as "a 31-room inn on 10.1 acres". [7] It operated as a hotel [8] and spa until November 2024.
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.
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 ]
Long Island has few tall buildings, in contrast to neighboring New York City. Long Island's identity as the birthplace of suburbia involves a desire to maintain the opposite of an urban landscape, with a flat landscape where high-rises are seen to be eyesores that clash with their surroundings, and even three-story buildings can provoke opposition.
Saratoga Spa State Park is a 2,379-acre (9.63 km 2) state park located in Saratoga County, New York in the United States. [3] The park is in the City of Saratoga Springs , near US 9 and NY 50 . The grounds contain mineral springs , classical bath and spa houses, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center .
The area which North Haven now exists was first settled in 1665. [4] The village incorporated itself in 1931. [4]In January 2007, Robert W. Rust, a former assistant U.S. attorney decorated for helping save the life of President John F. Kennedy almost three years before he was assassinated, placed his 55-acre (220,000 m 2) waterfront estate in the village of North Haven onto the market for $80 ...
Glen Island Park is a 105-acre (0.42 km 2) waterfront park, located on Glen Island, on the Long Island Sound, New York.The park is owned and operated by Westchester County and shares the island with a privately operated but county-owned entertainment facility, the Glen Island Harbour Club (formerly the Glen Island Casino).