Tuesday, February 4, 2014

'Westbury House' Aerial

A 1938 aerial of 'Westbury House', the John S. Phipps estate designed by George Crawley c. 1905 in Old Westbury.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Westbury House'.  Photo from Stony Brook University's Digital Archive.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The extent of the allee of Linden trees to the west and south is truly remarkable and to have so much of this original landscape design still intact might even be moreso. archibuff

Anonymous said...

I don't see the Cocks estate. I'd be interested to see some of the estates on I.U. Willets.

Zach L. said...

It's right there in the middle. From a downward left diagonal line from Westbury House you first hit Orchard Hill and then the Cocks place.

sagexlibris said...

CZ Guest writes about that allee of Linden trees, planted by her husband’s uncle Jay and how everyone could see right down the allee from Old Westbury Road. She had a screen of Spruce planted on the property line to block and provide some privacy.

She also mentions the, older and original to the property, Gerry Stables. You can see them in the Aerial, towards the rear of Templeton II’s property.

Also, You can see an intact “Ivycroft” in the lower left hand corner.

James said...

Old Westbury's answer to Glen Cove's Pratt compound. Knole ( northward) and Spring Hill to the west, and Erchless to the east were all Phipps properties, correct?

Anonymous said...

I also think Templeton I was northward also.


The Down East Dilettante said...

And let's not forget the John Phipps branch's Grace cousins at 'Crossroads'?

I know I've mentioned it before, but I am enchanged by the survival of the allees---although the one to the north, formed by cutting a straight 'ride' though the trees, rather than defined by border trees, seems to have lost it's definition over the years. And I suppose the allee that Mrs. Guest wrote about is also doomed as the trees mature and more development and demand for privacy on the neighboring properties...

I've been trying to think, and it seems to me that the only other remaining allee on this scale is the one at 'Castle Hill', the Crane estate in Ipswich?

Anonymous said...

I could be mistaken, but I thought while I was on a tour through the gardens at "Erchless", that the allee also crossed over heading eastward, though not aligned with the allee that lined the entrance and cut through across Westbury Road, but more towards the caretakers house.