'Bagatelle'

 'Bagatelle', the Thomas Hastings estate designed by himself c. 1908 in Old Westbury.  The residence is pictured here after it was entirely rebuilt along the original plans after a fire destroyed the first incarnation in 1913.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Bagatelle'.

Photos from American Architect & Architecture, 1914.

'Bagatelle'

'Bagatelle', the Thomas Hastings estate designed by himself (of Carrere & Hastings) c. 1908 in Old Westbury. This was the first incarnation of 'Bagatelle' that would go on to burn down but Hastings would rebuild to the same specifications in 1913. Click HERE for more on 'Bagatelle' and HERE to see 'Bagatelle' as it looks today. Click HERE to see 'Bagatelle' on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Architecture, 1911.

'Bagatelle'

'Bagatelle', the Thomas Hastings estate designed by himself c. 1913 (after the 1908 version was destroyed by fire) in Old Westbury. The estate has been for sale for the better part of four years, it is currently listed at $10,800,000, click HERE to see the listing on Daniel Gale Sotheby's. Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Bagatelle'. Listing photo from Daniel Gale Sotheby's.

'Bagatelle' in 1911

An article from House & Garden on 'Bagatelle', the estate of Thomas Hastings, designed by himself and built in Old Westbury c. 1913 (after a fire burned down the first one built c. 1908). Click HERE for more on 'Bagatelle'. Pictures courtesy of The Down East Dilettante. The exterior pictures below are of the first house that burned down.

Bagatelle

'Bagatelle', the Thomas Hastings estate he designed for himself in Old Westbury in 1908, with the house above dating from 1913. Click HERE for more on 'Bagatelle'.

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The front door to Thomas Hastings' estate 'Bagatelle' in Old Westbury.

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One of the entrances to the stables at Thomas Hastings' 'Bagatelle' in Old Westbury.

Thomas Hastings, Architect

Taken with a cellphone in the New York Public Library main hall, I figured Mr. Hastings deserved to be up here given how many houses he built on Long Island, including Bagatelle, his own (apologies to Mr. Carrere, I'll get you next time).

'Bagatelle' Stable

The rear of the stables at Thomas Hastings' 'Bagatelle' in Old Westbury. The stables have since been bricked up and the building is now a residence.

Bagatelle Pool Pavillion

The pool pavillion to Thomas Hastings' estate 'Bagatelle' in Old Westbury. Notice the knight's helmet below.

Bagatelle

Thomas Hastings, the very well known and talented architect of numerous estates on the North Shore (and numerous other very famous creations) built his own estate in Old Westbury in 1908. He wanted a study full of books, his wife wanted a stable to keep her horses. In 1913 a fire destroyed the original house, but Hastings rebuilt the new one to the same plans. The detail in this house is amazing, and you can tell that Hastings spared no expense. The front is a countyard, one side the front door, one side an allee of trees, one side a wall with a garden gate and one side the stables. Helen Hastings could look at her horses while standing in the doorway to the home.

The stable doors have since been removed, with half the structure now an apartment.

The rear of the house. Hastings planned the house around the rear and the open field that occupied the backyard (and also supplied a view to the dining room). Since then many trees have grown in destroying what Hastings had originally intended.