Pictures of 'Farnsworth', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock from House & Garden magazine, courtesy of a blog I recommend everyone check out, The Down East Dilettante. Click HERE for more on 'Farnsworth'.
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If memory serves me correctly then i think that room is in a book under the name the W.C.bird estate. Is that right?
-Kyle
Yes, Bird was the second owner of the estate.
And the story of the fate of the Bird mansion is famous: Wallis Clinton Bird was killed in a private plane crash in June, 1940 flying from Roosevelt Field to the Thousand Islands. His widow Marjorie Winifred Bird was, by many accounts, deranged by the whole buisness and became a virtual recluse. She eventually closed the house and moved to Paris. She is alleged to have been murdered by her doctor in Lausane, Switzerland in July, 1961 through a drug overdose. Farnsworth was then virtually intact, with the garages filled with the most amazing cars and the house much as it was the day Bird died, although the property became terribly overgrown. Subsequent to her death, the cars were sold, the house's contents dispersed and the place fell into ruin, the most famous "haunted house" in the neighborhood.
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