'Frost Mill Lodge' Interiors

The accompanying interiors to 'Frost Mill Lodge', the Irving Brokaw estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1926 in Mill Neck. Click HERE for more on 'Frost Mill Lodge'. Pictures from the Library of Congress.

'Frost Mill Lodge'

'Frost Mill Lodge', the Irving Brokaw estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1926 in Mill Neck, as pictured in 1946. Click HERE to see the brochure from when 'Frost Mill Lodge' was for sale and click HERE to see what it looks like today. Pictures from the Library of Congress.

When 'Frost Mill Lodge' Was For Sale

The following is a brochure advertising 'Frost Mill Lodge', the Irving Brokaw estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1926 in Mill Neck. Click HERE for more info on 'Frost Mill Lodge'.

Brochure courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities.

Picture of the Day

The rear fountain and yard of Irving Brokaw's 'Frost Mill Lodge' in Mill Neck.

'Frost Mill Lodge'

The front of 'Frost Mill Lodge', the Irving Brokaw estate in Mill Neck.

Frost Mill Lodge in Winter

Irving Brokaw's 'Frost Mill Lodge' in Mill Neck in winter.

Mill Neck Club Entrance

Buried in the woods off of Oyster Bay Road is what I believe to be the entrance to the Mill Neck Club, which sat on what is today 'Frost Mill Lodge', the Irving Brokaw estate in Mill Neck.  The ponds in this area were heavily used for ice skating in the winter months (Brokaw was a very serious ice skater, most likely why he bought this property) though the Mill Neck Club was used for shooting and or hunting (and probably skating in the winter).  

Courtesy of An Aesthete's Lament:  "On 3 May 1916, The New York Times ran an article stating that the Mill Neck Club's club house was the property of Irving Brokaw. However, the building was then being physically moved from Oyster Bay to Glen Cove. An earlier article about Brokaw's purchase of the building and its land (27 September 1914) called it the Mill Neck Gun Club, "one of the oldest organizations at Oyster Bay"—so it was a shooting club rather than a skating organization, though arguably that could have happened there too. The property was stated as being 105 acres in size, and that Arthur D Weekes was the president of the club." 

You can still make out what looks like the driveway running along the pond when you look at it from google earth.  Above is the view looking into the property, below is the view looking out towards Oyster Bay Road.

  

Lower Francis Pond, which is now a nature preserve.  

Update: Arthur Delano Weeks, the president of the Mill Neck Gun Club, lived just east of Lower Francis Pond at the intersection of Beaver Brook and Oyster Bay Glen Cove Roads.  He was an attorney and mayor of the Village of Oyster Bay.

'Frost Mill Lodge' Cottage

The guest cottage to Irving Brokaw's 'Frost Mill Lodge' in Mill Neck.

'Frost Mill Lodge' Reflecting Pool

The fountain in the rear of Irving Brokaw's 'Frost Mill Lodge' in Mill Neck.

'Frost Mill Lodge' Front Door

The front door to Irving Brokaw's 'Frost Mill Lodge' in Mill Neck.

'Frost Mill Lodge' Wine Cellar

The wine cellar in Irving Brokaw's 'Frost Mill Lodge'. The wine cellar can be accessed through the basement or from a hidden staircase that leads to the kitchen. They clearly used to have very expensive wine down here, given that there is a cage and locked gate once you actually access the cellar.

Frost Mill Lodge

The former Irving Brokaw estate in Mill Neck was built c. 1926 by Walker and Gillette. The property includes Lower Francis Pond, a protected nature preserve. Irving Brokaw was an artist and ice skater, and it's likely he built his house here to employ the frozen pond in the winter. The house is very large, 3 floors and full servants quarters. The estate had been for sale and the house, stables and cottage still are. Nassau County purchased the two waterfront lots to preserve the open space. Click HERE to see where Frost Mill Lodge is on google earth.

The entryway. Notice the wrought iron bows and arrows above the double doors.

The formal living room. This room is very large, and there is an attached brick porch beyond the two sets of double doors.

The landscaping has not been maintained in roughly 50 years here, so there is a lot of overgrowth. To the right of the fountain is a trail that leads down to the pond. There are also horse trails throughout the woods at the far end of the property.

The stables. Looks like there hasn't been a horse here in a long, long time.