Monday, May 6, 2013

'Sherryland'

'Sherryland', originally the Louis Sherry estate with alterations by McKim, Mead & White c. 1915 in Manhasset and later owned by Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt.  She renamed the estate 'Fairmont' and resided there until her death in 1935 (click HERE to see her previous residence).  In 1938 the estate was sold to William Levitt who developed the property and main house into the Strathmore Vanderbilt Country Club.  Click HERE to see 'Sherryland' on google earth and HERE on bing.

5 comments:

Kellsboro Jack said...

Perhaps it is just the storybook castle influence, but MMW looks to have used a similar pen with the Piermont, NY located Lord/Thaw estate. John Foreman did a visit to the property in January ...

http://bigoldhouses.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-love-this-house.html

Anonymous said...

Love a good storybook castle. Strathmore was developed by the pre-Levittown Levitt, who did a fairly decent job here at building mock Tudors and Georgians in Manhasset. NYarch

ChipSF said...

What a good find Zach. I thought this one had been demolished.

wooded blis said...

cozy, very cozy, inside..mind boggling to think that was open meadows back in the day..i see similarities with her previous residence.

The Down East Dilettante said...

It is YEARS later, but just for the sake of the record, I just came to realize today that this view is not of "Sherryland", but of Louis Sherry's previous estate, which he sold to the Crocker family before he built "Sherryland".