'Blemton Manor'

'Blemton Manor', the August Belmont II estate built c. 1865 in Hempstead and pictured here after it had been converted into the local Elks Club.  Click HERE for more on 'Blemton Manor'.

'Nearacre'

'Nearacre', the Edmund Burton Lyon estate designed by Dwight James Baum c. 1917 in Hempstead.  Lyon's son Cecil Burton Lyon was Ambassador to Chile and Sri Lanka.  The home appears to have since been demolished.

Photos from American Architect, 1922.

'Brookholt'

'Brookholt', the O.H.P. Belmont estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1897 in Hempstead.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Brookholt' which has since been demolished.

'Blemton Manor'

'Blemton Manor', the August Belmont II estate built c. 1865 in Hempstead.  Click HERE for more on 'Blemton Manor' which has since been demolished.

'Brookholt' Advertisement

A 1920 advertisement for 'Brookholt', the O.H.P. Belmont estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1897 in Hempstead.  Belmont died in 1908 and his widow Alva built 'Beacon Towers' in Sands Point in 1917.  Click HERE for more on 'Brookholt'.  Advertisement from Country Life, 1920.

'Brookholt'

'Brookholt', the Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1897 in Hempstead.  Click HERE for more on 'Brookholt' which has since been demolished.  Photo from the Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York, 1913.

'Blemton Manor'

'Blemton Manor', the August Belmont II estate built c. 1865 in Hempstead. Belmont was a partner in Belmont and Company and chairman of the board of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company. He was also the president of the Boston, Cape Cod, and New York Canal Co. August was the older brother of O.H.P. Belmont who resided at 'Brookholt'. The house has since been demolished but sat on Fulton Avenue where the Country Estates Apartments are today.

'Brookholt'

An old postcard of 'Brookholt', the O.H.P. Belmont estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1897 in Hempstead. Click HERE for more on 'Brookholt'.

'Brookholt'

'Brookholt', the Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont estate designed by Richard Howland Hunt of Hunt & Hunt c. 1897 in Hempstead. Following Alva's divorce from Willie K., she married O.H.P. Belmont and the two commissioned Hunt to design yet another house for them (they had a handful of Richard Morris and Richard Howland Hunt designed houses). Belmont was the son of August Belmont, the American agent to the Rothschilds banking empire. 'Brookholt' was demolished sometime in the 1950s.

Pictures from Architectural Record, 1902.