'Barberrys'

'Barberrys', the Nelson Doubleday estate designed by Harrie Lindeberg c. 1916 in Mill Neck.  Click HERE for more on 'Barberrys' and HERE to see a sales brochure from when the estate was for sale in the 1940s.  Photo from Arts & Decoration, 1919.

'Oheka' Farm Group

The farm group to 'Oheka', the Otto Hermann Kahn estate designed by Delano & Aldrich c. 1916 in Cold Spring Harbor.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Oheka'.  Click HERE to see the extant stable building on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Architectural Forum, 1919.

The Henry C. Martin Estate

The first Henry C. Martin estate designed by Harrie Lindeberg c. 1914 in Glen Cove.  Click HERE to see a brochure from when the Martin's subsequent Lindeberg designed residence was for sale.  This residence was demolished sometime prior to 1939.  Photo from Arts & Decoration, 1919.

'Box Hill'

 'Box Hill', the Stanford White estate designed by McKim, Mead & White from 1886-1906 in St. James.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Box Hill'.  Click HERE to see the estate on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Scientific American, 1904.

'Pembroke' Aerial

'Pembroke', the Joseph R. De Lamar estate designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1916 in Glen Cove.  Click HERE, HERE and HERE for more on 'Pembroke' which has since been demolished.  Photo from Arts & Decoration, 1921.

'The Chimneys'

'The Chimneys', the Bettie Fleischmann Holmes estate designed by Edgar Irving Williams c. 1929 in Sands Point.  Holmes was the widow of Dr. Christian R. Holmes and herself was a board member of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society and the Metropolitan Opera.  Since 1954 the house has functioned as the Sands Point Community Synagogue.  Click HERE to see 'The Chimneys' on google earth and HERE on bing.  This aerial is part of SMU's Robert Yarnall Richie collection and was taken between 1932-1934.

'Bayberry Land' Gardens

The Marian Coffin designed gardens at 'Bayberry Land', the Charles H. Sabin estate designed by Cross & Cross c. 1918 in Southampton.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Bayberry Land'.

Photos from Arts & Decoration, 1920.

'Bayberry Land'

'Bayberry Land', the Charles H. Sabin estate designed by Cross & Cross c. 1918 in Southampton.  Click HERE for more on 'Bayberry Land' and HERE for interior photos.  The estate was demolished in 2004.  

Photos from Arts & Decoration, 1919.

'Darragh Hall' Today

'Darragh Hall', the Darragh A. Park estate designed by Peabody, Wilson & Brown c. 1920 in Old Brookville pictured last year.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Darragh Hall'.  Photo courtesy of James Hogarty.

'Darragh Hall' Part 2

 More on 'Darragh Hall', the Darragh A. Park estate designed by Peabody, Wilson & Brown c. 1920 in Old Brookville.  Click HERE for more on 'Darragh Hall'.  Click HERE to see 'Darragh Hall' on google earth and HERE on bing.

First four photos from Architectural Forum, 1921.  Last photo from Architectural Record, 1920.

'Darragh Hall'

'Darragh Hall', the Darragh Anderson Park estate designed by Peabody, Wilson & Brown c. 1920 in Old Brookville.  Park was the son of William Gray Park of 'Ivycroft' in Old Westbury and was president of the New York Empire Bank and partner in the firm of Parker & Co.  The Park's daughter Edith married Alastair Bradley Martin of 'Knole' in Old Westbury and 'Darragh Hall' was subsequently owned by them.  Click HERE to see the residence on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Arts & Decoration, 1920.

The Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt Estate

The Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt estate designed by John Russell Pope c. 1911 in Brookville.  Click HERE for more on the estate which has since been demolished.  Photo from Arts & Decoration, 1920.

'Knole'

 'Knole', originally built for Herman Duryea by Carrere & Hastings c. 1903 in Old Westbury and for many years the Bradley Martin estate.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Knole'.  Click HERE to see 'Knole' on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Scientific American, 1904.

'Martin Hall' Garden

The Italian Garden at 'Martin Hall', the James E. Martin estate designed by Little & O'Connor c. 1900 in Great Neck.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Martin Hall' which has since been demolished.

'Shoredge'

'Shoredge', the Howard Caswell Smith estate designed by Edward H. Ficken c. 1906 in Cove Neck.  Smith was partner in Charles Hathaway & Co., chairman of the board of Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. and former mayor of the Village of Cove Neck.  He was a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt and helped establish Roosevelt's 'Sagamore Hill' as a national monument following Roosevelt's death.  Smith was also chairman of the Oyster Bay Planning Commission and a member of the Nassau County Planning Commission.  He died in the house at the age of 94 in 1965 and 'Shoredge' was later demolished but click HERE to see roughly where it stood.  Click HERE to see the D.W. Smith estate 'Shoredge' that sits at the foot of the estate.  D.W. was not listed in Smith's obituary so he is not a son, perhaps a brother.  Photo from Garden & Home Builder, 1905.

'Villa Mille Fiori'

 'Villa Mille Fiori', the Albert Barnes Boardman estate designed by Hill & Stout c. 1910 in Southampton.   Boardman was a prominent attorney and partner in the firm of O'Brien, Boardman, Conboy, Memhard & Early.  Boardman sold the house in 1923 to his law partner Morgan O'Brien and moved into a Polhemus & Coffin designed residence.  'Villa Mille Fiori' was demolished in the 1960s.  Click HERE and HERE for more on the estate.  Photo from the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Henry F. Atherton Estate

 The Henry Francis Atherton estate designed by James O'Connor c. 1919 in Upper Brookville.  Atherton was chairman of the board of Allied Chemical and Dye and secretary of the National Aniline and Chemical Company.  In 1937 Atherton's 21 year old son was found shot in the head in his bedroom the day before he was to return to Harvard for his final year of school in an apparent suicide.  Click HERE to see the Atherton estate on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Architectural Review, 1920.

'The Braes' Aerial

'The Braes', the Herbert L. Pratt estate designed by James Brite of Brite & Bacon c. 1912 in Glen Cove.  Click HERE and HERE for more on the residence and HERE to see what the estate looks like today as the Webb Institute.  Photo from the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago.

'Algoma'

'Algoma', the General Wager Swayne estate designed by Grosvenor Atterbury c. 1900 in the Shinnecock Hills in Southampton.  Swayne was born in Ohio and came to New York in 1880, the son of Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Noah H. Swayne.  A trained lawyer, Swayne enlisted in the Forty-third Ohio Volunteers at the onset of the Civil War.  He served under General Sherman in the Atlanta campaign where he lost a leg and went on to receive a series of promotions, ultimately being named Brigadier General.  During the reconstruction period he served as Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau in Alabama.  Swayne died in 1902 and the residence was inherited by his son Alfred Harris Swayne, vice-president of General Motors Corp. from 1921 until his death in 1937.  Click HERE to see 'Algoma' on google earth and HERE on bing.  Photo from The American Architect, 1908.