Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Edward J. Rickert Residence

The Edward J. Rickert residence designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1908 in Kensington in Great Neck.  Rickert was half of the development partnership of the Rickert-Finlay Realty Company which developed Kensington.  Click HERE for more on the Rickert residence which was demolished c. 1960.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why would this be demolished? Looks very maintainable.

Anonymous said...

This can't have been "demolished" in 1960 -- by then it was a ruin, with about the only identifiable remainder the stone front steps and the stone balustrade, sitting in a several acre woods (of comparatively small trees, consistent with the destruction having been only a decade or two earlier.