'Laurelton Hall' Interiors

 Some interiors of 'Laurelton Hall', the Louis C. Tiffany estate designed by himself c. 1904 in Laurel Hollow.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Laurelton Hall'.

Photos from the Year Book of the Architectural League of New York, 1907.

'Laurelton Hall'

'Laurelton Hall', the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate designed by himself c. 1904 in Laurel Hollow.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Laurelton Hall' which is no longer extant.  Photo from the Museum of the City of New York.

'Laurelton Hall' Aerial

A 1938 aerial of 'Laurelton Hall', the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate designed by himself c. 1904 in Laurel Hollow.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Laurelton Hall'.  Photo from Stony Brook University's Digital Archive.

'Cedar Knolls'

'Cedar Knolls', the Frank Gould residence designed by Noel & Miller c. 1929 in Laurel Hollow.  Click HERE for more on 'Cedar Knolls' and HERE to see the house on bing.  Photo from Country Life, 1933.

'Cannon Hill'

'Cannon Hill', the John Henry Jones Stewart estate designed by Nelson & Van Wagenen c. 1911 in Laurel Hollow. Stewart was the vice-president of the Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance Company. The home had a slew of subsequent owners including Yoko Ono. Click HERE to see 'Cannon Hill' on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from American Architect & Architecture, 1916.

'Whispering Laurels''

'Whispering Laurels', the Beverly Duer estate designed by Delano & Aldrich c. 1929 in Laurel Hollow, with landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers. Duer was a member of the Guaranty Trust Co. and a trustee of the Village of Laurel Hollow. The house and 3 acres is currently for sale for $4,275,000, click HERE to see the listing on Daniel Gale Sotheby's. Click HERE to see 'Whispering Laurels' on google earth and HERE on bing.

Listing photos from Daniel Gale Sotheby's.

The 'Laurelton Hall' Smokestack

The former smokestack to the power house of 'Laurelton Hall', the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate designed by and for himself c. 1904 in Laurel Hollow. This is one of the few remaining ruins of the house. Click HERE for more on 'Laurelton Hall'.

Notable Residents of St. John's Memorial Cemetery

Above and below are some of the prominent residents of St. John's Church Memorial Cemetery in Laurel Hollow. Above, Otto H. Kahn, owner of 'Oheka' in Cold Spring Harbor.

My personal favorite, Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of State under the Hoover Administration and Secretary of War under Taft and more importantly under F.D.R. for the duration of World War II, owner of 'Highold' in West Hills.

Walter Jennings, owner of 'Burrwood' in Lloyd Harbor.

George Brewster, owner of 'Fairleigh' in Brookville.

Benjamin Moore, owner of 'Chelsea' in Muttontown.

George Whitney and Martha Bacon Whitney, owners of 'Home Acres' in Old Westbury.

John A. Garver, owner of 'Wrexleigh' in Oyster Bay Cove.

St. John's Church Memorial Cemetery

The memorial cemetery of St. John's Church of Cold Spring Harbor located off of Northern Blvd. in Laurel Hollow. Many notable Old Long Island residents are interred here but the cemetery itself has very few graves. Those who are buried here are spread out over quite a large parcel of property and are surrounded by hundreds of mature rhododendrons. Below are some pictures of the grounds of the cemetery, click HERE to see some of the cemetery's notable residents.

A rhody that grafted itself to a tree stump.

'Cedar Knolls'

'Cedar Knolls', the Frank Miller Gould estate designed by Noel & Miller c. 1929 in Laurel Hollow. Frank Gould was the grandson of Jay Gould and his wife Sara Miller, who SPLIA presumes to be related to George Macculloch Miller of Noel & Miller. Gould was vice president of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and was chairman of the board of the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children, a philanthropic organization started by his father. Click HERE to see 'Cedar Knolls' on google earth and HERE on bing. Click HERE to see the sales listing to 'Cedar Knolls', which is currently for sale.

Picture of the Day

The veranda with gardens beyond at Louis C. Tiffany's 'Laurelton Hall' in Laurel Hollow. Picture from the Library of Congress.

Laurelton Hall

'Laurelton Hall' was built by and for Louis Comfort Tiffany c. 1904 in Laurel Hollow. Tiffany was the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co. Louis himself was an accomplished artist and interior designer, as well as the President of Tiffany & Co., and founder of numerous Tiffany glass companies. He came to the area in 1890 after he constructed his first house 'The Briars', which eventually burned down. He replaced it with 'Laurelton Hall', which sat on roughly 580 aces, an incredibly unusual and eclectic house with something different around every corner. Tiffany filled the house with all sorts of pieces he designed along with numerous pieces of art from his personal collection. After he died the house was deeded to his foundation and after they abandoned the house it was extensively vandalized and ultimately ruined. The remains were demolished in 1957, though some pieces still exist today. Cick HERE to see where 'Laurelton Hall' stood on google earth. The photos were taken in 1924.

The front facade.

The courtyard and entrance.

The veranda.

The view from the rear terrace overlooking Cold Spring Harbor.

The minaret used to function as the smokestack for the power house.

The rear.

A fountain known as 'the Spring'.

The covered bridge. A piece of this still remains.

Click below to see 'Laurelton Hall' intact and still standing in a 1953 aerial shot. Photos from the Library of Congress.

Laurelton Hall Interiors

The fountain in the central court at Louis Comfort Tiffany's 'Laurelton Hall' in Laurel Hollow.

A portrait of Tiffany hangs on the wall at one end of the court.

Above and below are views of the central court from the second floor.

The living room. The large stained glass window on the wall can be seen in greater detail below.

The other side of the living room.

The chapel.

Photos from the Library of Congress.

For anyone interested in more on Louis C. Tiffany or Laurelton Hall, check out this book: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate