'Myhome' was built for Francis S. Smithers, founder and partner of the investment banking firm of F.S. Smithers & Co., on Red Spring Lane in Glen Cove. Ellen Biddle Shipman was responsible for the landscaping, but other than that not much is known on the house. Smithers died in 1919.
Friday, February 27, 2009
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Pics in your last several posts have been extraordinary. Thank you for sharing the history you love so much.
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
Didn't Francis Smithers also own an estate named Dunrobin on Overlook Rd overlooking Oyster Bay which demolished during The Great Depression? There was a carriage house and servant's house with an attached greenhouse.
I believe a cottage still remains, and is for sale. Im not sure of its original purpose.
Spinzia says that Smithers' brother, Christopher, owned Dunrobin.
I know the cottage still remains along with the greenhouse. I just passed it the other day when my mother’s funeral procession passed the property before burial at Locust Valley Cemetesy.. My mother’s father grew up in that cottage and was the smither’s family gardener who worked in the greenhouse. My great grandfather, Salvatore Aqualina, was the gardener. His wife was Lucia and he had 5 children: Antonio, Julio, Angelina, Angelo (my grandpa), and Madelena.
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