Showing posts with label Lattingtown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lattingtown. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

'Peacock Point'

'Peacock Point', the Henry Pomeroy Davison estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1914 in Lattingtown.  Click HEREHERE and HERE for more on 'Peacock Point' which is no longer extant.




Monday, April 4, 2016

'Peacock Point'

'Peacock Point', the Henry P. Davison estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1914 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE, HERE and HERE for more on 'Peacock Point'.

Monday, November 30, 2015

'The Gables'

'The Gables', originally built for Max H. Schultze c. 1910 in Lattingtown and pictured here under subsequent owners Cyril P.W.F.R. Dugmore and his wife Lilla Brokaw Dugmore.  Click HERE to see a brochure from when 'The Gables' was for sale.  The residence is no longer extant.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

'Peacock Point'

'Peacock Point', the Henry Pomeroy Davison estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1914 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Peacock Point' which has since been demolished.

Monday, October 13, 2014

The Louis J. Horowitz Estate

The Louis J. Horowitz estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1918 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE for more on the Horowitz estate which was demolished in 1954.  Photo from the Year Book of the Architectural League of New York, 1918.

Monday, September 29, 2014

'Peacock Point'

'Peacock Point' the Henry P. Davison estate designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1914 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Peacock Point'.  The postcard is mislabeled the Jesse Livermore estate.

Monday, September 22, 2014

'Meudon'

'Meudon', the William D. Guthrie estate designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1900 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE for more on 'Meudon' and HERE for all previous posts on the estate.  These photographs were taken during the last days of the house.




Photos from the Parke-Bernet Galleries Catalog, 1956.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

'Veraton' Interiors

Some interiors to 'Veraton', the Paul D. Cravath estate designed by Babb, Cook & Willard c. 1905 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE for more on 'Veraton' which is no longer extant.





Photos from the Museum of the City of New York.

Monday, June 30, 2014

'Northway'

 'Northway', the Henry W. Warner estate built c. 1904 in Lattingtown.  Warner was a stock broker.  The residence was subsequently owned by William McNair who named the estate 'Northward House'.  The house is most notable for its use in the 1986 Tom Hanks and Shelley Long movie The Money Pit.  'Northway' is currently for sale for $12,500,000, click HERE to see the listing via Daniel Gale Sotheby's.  Click HERE to see the residence on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from MLSLI.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

'Meudon' Aerial

A 1938 aerial of 'Meudon', the William D. Guthrie estate designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1900 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE for more on 'Meudon'.  Photo from Stony Brook University's Digital Archive.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

'Ormston'

'Ormston', the John E. Aldred estate designed by Bertram G. Goodhue between 1913-1918 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE to see a brochure from when 'Ormston' was for sale and HERE for more.  Click HERE to see the estate on bing.

Monday, August 12, 2013

'Ormston' Aerial

An aerial of 'Ormston', the John E. Aldred estate designed by Bertram G. Goodhue between 1913-1918 in Lattingtown with outbuildings by Henry W. Rowe and landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers.  Click HERE to see a brochure from when 'Ormston' was for sale.  Click HERE to see the estate on google earth and HERE on bing.  Photo from the Aiglon Archives.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

'Meudon' Ruins

The remnants of 'Meudon', the William D. Guthrie estate designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1900 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Meudon' which was demolished in the 1960s.  Photos courtesy of Eddie Crowley.








Tuesday, July 23, 2013

'Meudon' Aerial

'Meudon', the William D. Guthrie estate designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1900 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE for more on 'Meudon'.  Photo from the Aiglon Archives.

Monday, June 10, 2013

'Meudon' Aerial

An aerial of 'Meudon', the William D. Guthrie estate designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1900 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE for more on 'Meudon' (be sure to scroll down).  Photo from the Aiglon Archives.

Monday, May 20, 2013

The Louis J. Horowitz Estate

The Louis Jay Horowitz estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1918 in Lattingtown.  Horowitz was the president of the construction firm Thompson Starrett Co.  That construction company built such NYC projects as the Woolworth Building, the New York Herald Tribune Building and the Equitable Building among others.  The residence was demolished in 1954 but sat on Skunks Misery Road.  Click HERE for more on the Horowitz estate.  Postcard courtesy of the Gary Lawrance Collection.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

'Elkhurst'

'Elkhurst', the Edward Mortimer Ward Sr. residence in Lattingtown.  His grandfather, James O. Ward, was a founder of Ward Shipping Lines.  E.M. was a member of the shipping firm Hageman & Ward.   Click HERE to see 'Elkhurst' on google earth and HERE on bing.  Postcard from the Gary Lawrance Collection.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

'Peacock Point'

'Peacock Point', the Charles Otis Gates estate designed by Charles A. Rich c. 1902 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE for more on the first 'Peacock Point'.  Photo from the Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of NY, 1902.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The Glenn Stewart Farm Group

The Glenn Stewart residence and farm group designed by Alfred Hopkins c. 1914 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE and HERE for more on the Stewart property.


Photos from Architectural Forum, 1919.

Monday, March 18, 2013

'Birchwood' Farm Group

The Alfred Hopkins designed farm group to 'Birchwood', the Anson Wood Burchard estate designed by Howard Greenley c. 1906 in Lattingtown.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Birchwood'.  Click HERE to see the farm group on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Architectural Forum, 1919.