Showing posts with label Lloyd Harbor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lloyd Harbor. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

'Rosemary Farm'

 'Rosemary Farm', the Roland Ray Conklin estate designed by Wilson Eyre c. 1907 in Lloyd Harbor.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Rosemary Farm' which burned down in 1990.



Photos from The Brickbuilder, 1911.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

'Caumsett'

'Caumsett', the Marshall Field III estate designed by John Russell Pope between 1921 and 1925 in Lloyd Harbor.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Caumsett'.  Photo from The American Architect, 1928.

Monday, February 4, 2013

'Whitewood'

'Whitewood', the Donald Scott Sr. estate designed by Dana & Murphy c. 1912 in Lloyd Harbor.  Scott was a professor of anthropology and archaeology at Harvard.  The estate had recently been for sale for $21,000,000.  Click HERE for more on 'Whitewood'.  Click HERE to see the estate on google earth and HERE on bing.



Photos from Architectural Forum, 1919.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

'Fort Hill'

'Fort Hill', the Anne Coleman Alden estate designed by McKim, Mead & Bigelow c. 1878 in Lloyd Neck.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Fort Hill'.

Photos from The Brickbuilder, 1903.

Monday, November 19, 2012

'Fort Hill'

 'Fort Hill', originally built for Anne Coleman Alden by McKim, Mead & Bigelow c. 1878 and extensively altered for subsequent owner William John Matheson by Boring & Tilton c. 1900 in Lloyd Neck.  Click HERE for more on 'Fort Hill'.  The ten acre estate is currently for sale for $11,700,000, click HERE to see the listing via Daniel Gale Sotheby's.  For the last twenty years SPLIA has held preservation covenants over the property.  Click HERE to see 'Fort Hill' on google earth and HERE on bing.



MLS listing photos via Daniel Gale Soteby's.

Monday, January 2, 2012

'Lulworth'

'Lulworth', the Francis M. Weld Jr. estate designed by Charles A. Platt c. 1912 in Lloyd Harbor. The estate also had Olmsted landscaping and an Ellen Shipman designed walled flower garden and terrace. Weld was a partner with the investment banking firm of White, Weld and Co. and was a director at numerous other companies. His second marriage was to Julia de Forest Tiffany, one of Louis C. Tiffany's twin daughters. Weld was killed in an airplane crash in 1949. Click HERE to see 'Lulworth' on google earth and HERE on bing.







Photos from The American Architect, 1915.

Friday, December 16, 2011

'Panfield'

'Panfield', the Albert G. Milbank estate designed by John Mead Howells of Howells & Stokes c. 1915 in Lloyd Harbor, with landscaping by J.J. Levison and Lewis & Valentine. Click HERE for more on 'Panfield'. Click HERE to see 'Panfield' on google earth and HERE on bing.


Photos from Architecture, 1918.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Fountain at 'Burrwood'

The fountain at 'Burrwood', the Walter Jennings estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1899 in Lloyd Harbor. Click HERE for more on the fountain and HERE for more on 'Burrwood'. Photo from Country Life, 1922.

Monday, March 14, 2011

'Whitewood'

'Whitewood', the Donald Scott Sr. estate built c. 1912 in Lloyd Harbor. Scott was a professor of anthropology and archaeology at Harvard University and along with 33 other individuals (including Franklin D. Roosevelt) purchased the New York Evening Post in 1922 (where Scott became a director). The estate was later purchased by Morris Hadley followed by his son John Wood Blodgett Hadley. The house and 55 acres is currently for sale for $21,000,000, click HERE to see the listing on Daniel Gale Sotheby's. Click HERE to see 'Whitewood' on google earth and HERE on bing.



Monday, January 24, 2011

'Fort Hill' Garage

The garage to 'Fort Hill', designed by G. Clinton Mackenzie c. 1910 for the W.J. Matheson estate in Lloyd Harbor. Click HERE for more on 'Fort Hill'.
Photos from Architectural Record, 1911.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

'Caumsett' Interiors

Some 1927 interiors to 'Caumsett', the Marshall Field III estate designed by John Russell Pope c. 1920 in Lloyd Harbor. Click HERE for more and to see 'Caumsett' as it looks today. Pictures from the Library of Congress.








Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Charles S. Robertson Estate Interiors

The accompanying interiors to yesterday's post on the Charles S. Robertson estate designed by Mott Schmidt c. 1938 in Lloyd Harbor. Click HERE for more on the Charles S. Robertson estate.





Pictures from the Library of Congress.

Monday, December 20, 2010

The Charles S. Robertson Estate

The Charles S. Robertson estate designed by Mott Schmidt c. 1938 in Lloyd Harbor. Robertson's wife Marie was an heir to the A&P Supermarket fortune. Click HERE to see the estate on google earth and HERE on bing. The estate is currently owned by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and functions as the Banbury Center.






Pictures from the Library of Congress.