'Rosemary Hall' was built for Foxhall P. Keene by Freeman & Hasselman c. 1902 in Old Westbury. The rear originally had a series of terraces that led to a formal garden. The house caught fire some years ago and sat in disrepair as the front of the property was subdivided, but someone has clearly undertaken an extensive renovation, given that the four front columns are missing at the moment. Click HERE to see 'Rosemary Hall' on google earth.
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The temporary shoring has been up for quite sometime, at least 4-5 years
this lovely house was known as Holloway House for quite some time, and the New York Institute of Technology owned it from sometime in the early '70s until '83, when it was sold to the Bonici brothers who were doing some elegant development in the surrounding area ... I actually lived in the little triangular-fronted room on top of the pillars from '79 to '83, when NY Tech sold it ... all the occupants at the time were researchers in Tech's Computer Graphics lab ... it was rather a shock when I learned that it was one of the two homes featured in a famous Johnny Walker Black ad ... I had had saved that ad when it first appeared in the NY Times Sunday magazine some years previous but I was unaware that I was in the house, since my first visit I was brought in thru the back entrance ... during my tour of the house one of the occupants also had cut out the ad and had it on their wall, and when I remarked I also had that ad, the person said "This is the house!" ... I was led outside, this time into the front, whereupon it was delightfully obvious that I was inside that famous house
whats that odd looking house to the upper left of rosemary hall
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