'Frost Mill Lodge', the Irving Brokaw estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1926 in Mill Neck, as pictured in 1946. Click HERE to see the brochure from when 'Frost Mill Lodge' was for sale and click HERE to see what it looks like today. Pictures from the Library of Congress.
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This house has spent a life time dressed up in ALL the wrong elements. Like some beautiful woman in desperate need of a make over-the type that could be a model if only...
It's such a delightful and daring interpretation of the Soane style (just a bit overdone) and never gets the praise it deserves. And it seems from all the pictures Ive seen it was misunderstood right from the very start.
CUT YOUR HAIR AND PUT ON SOME MAKE UP!
For starters-remove all that silly landscaping, lime-wash the brick and install a very tailored Four Court.
Is this home still up for sale? I remember it on the market maybe a year ago....but don't see it listed any more.
Frost Mill, as in Gideon Frost, the founder of Friends Academy.Quaker.
I agree with the first commentor, it is unfortunate that this house has been so misunderstood and not presented to its full potential. As an architect, I sometimes have wondered if I was creating a home too sophisticated for the clients. (But the answer has always been no!)
Is that Tom Brokaws parents?
I used to have a home with those wonderful arched windows and doors.
I am going to a wedding on long Island in a week, wish I couls see these wonderful homes.
Hope you had a fine Thanksgiving.
yvonne
The entrance front seems to be fairly closely modeled on Pitshanger Manor in West London, designed by Sir John Soane as his own home, built circa 1804.
It's fabulous to see these old photos.
"Is that Tom Brokaws parents?"
Nope, no relation to speak of. But they were the parents of Lucile Brokaw, who was featured in a famous photo by Munkacsi.
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