'Airdrie'

'Airdrie', the Edwin Fish estate designed by Delano & Aldrich c. 1920 in Matinecock.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Airdrie'.  The residence and twenty acres are currently for sale for $10,995,000, click HERE to see the listing via Daniel Gale Sotheby's.  Click HERE to see 'Airdrie' on bing.

Listing photos from MLSLI.

'Farnsworth' Aerial

A 1938 aerial of 'Farnsworth', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Farnsworth'.  Photo from Stony Brook University's Digital Archive.

'Farnsworth' Aerial

An aerial of 'Farnsworth' the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock.  Chicken Valley Road is seen running along the bottom of the photograph.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Farnsworth'.  Photo courtesy of SPLIA.

'Farnsworth'

 'Farnsworth', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock.  Click HERE for more on 'Farnsworth' which was demolished c. 1966.

Photos courtesy of SPLIA.

The Alfred Coster Schermerhorn Residence

The Alfred Coster Schermerhorn residence designed by Leroy P. Ward c. 1929 in Matinecock.  Schermerhorn was a stock broker and senior partner in the firm of Fahnestock & Co.  He divorced his wife, Ruth Fahnestock, in 1937 and she remarried the same day of the divorce.  In 1945 he was appointed the Washington representative of Chase Manhattan Bank of New York.  Click HERE to see the A.C. Schermerhorn residence on bing.  Postcard from the Gary Lawrance Collection.

'Portledge' Outbuilding

The gardener's and chauffeur's cottage at 'Portledge', the Charles A. Coffin estate designed by Howard Greenley c. 1910 in Matinecock.  Click HERE for more on 'Portledge'.  Photo from the Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York, 1914.

'Portledge'

'Portledge', the Charles Albert Coffin estate designed by Howard Greenley c. 1910 in Matinecock.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Portledge'.  Click HERE to see the residence on bing.  Photo from the Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York, 1913.

'Solana'

 'Solana', originally the Stephen Howland Brown estate designed by Addison Mizner c. 1917 in Matinecock with later alterations for Charles A. Stone by William Welles Bosworth c. 1920.  Click HERE for more on 'Solana' and HERE to see it on bing.

Photo from the Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York, 1921.

The Carriage House at 'Farnsworth'

 The carriage house and garage to 'Farnsworth', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock.  Today the two buildings have been converted into a private residence.  Click HERE for more on the carriage house and HERE for more on 'Farnsworth'.  Photos courtesy of James Hogarty.

The Outbuildings of 'Farnsworth'

 The farm group at 'Farnsworth', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock.  Click HERE for more on 'Farnsworth'.  The carriage house and garage are extant, click HERE to see them on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from The Brickbuilder, 1916.

'Farnsworth'

 'Farnsworth', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Farnsworth' which has since been demolished.

Photos from The Brickbuilder, 1916.

'Hilaire'

'Hilaire', the George E. Fahys estate designed by James O'Connor c. 1910 in Matinecock.  Fahys was president of Joseph Fahys & Co. and the Alvin Silver Company of Sag Harbor.  He was also a founder of the Piping Rock Club which sat across the street from 'Hilaire'.  At age 89 he shot and killed himself in the lavatory of his study.  Click HERE for more on 'Hilaire' which has since been demolished.  Photo from Examples of Work by Lewis & Valentine, 1916.

'Farnsworth'

'Farnsworth', the C.K.G. Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock. Click HERE for more on 'Farnsworth'.

Photos from Examples of Work by Lewis & Valentine, 1916.

The Piping Rock Club

The Piping Rock Club designed by Guy Lowell c. 1911 in Matinecock. Click HERE and HERE for more on the Piping Rock Club. Click HERE to see the club on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from American Architect & Architecture, 1912.

'Farnsworth'

'Farnsworth', the Cornelius Kingsley Garrison (C.K.G.) Billings estate designed by Guy Lowell c. 1914 in Matinecock, with landscaping by A. Robeson Sargent. Billings was president of Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co., Chicago and chairman of the board of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. The estate was demolished c. 1966. Click HERE for more on 'Farnsworth' and HERE to see what's left of the estate. Click HERE to see where 'Farnsworth' stood on google earth.

Photos from American Architect & Architecture, 1915.

'Portledge'

'Portledge', the Charles A. Coffin estate designed by Howard Greenley c. 1910 in Matinecock. Coffin was a founder, president and chairman of the board of General Electric Company from the time of its organization in 1913 to his retirement in 1922. Click HERE for more on 'Portledge' and Charles A. Coffin. Click HERE to see 'Portledge' on google earth and HERE on bing.

Photos from Architecture, 1912.

'Marney'

'Marney', the Sidney Alexander Mitchell estate designed by James O'Connor c. 1924 in Matinecock. Mitchell, son of Sidney Z. Mitchell who resided next door, was an attorney, president and director of Bonbright & Co., special attache to the Court of St. James, president of the Federation of French Alliances in the United States, vice-president of both the Institute for Crippled and Disabled and the Institution for Relief in Belgium and author of S.Z. Mitchell and the Electric Industry. Click HERE to see what 'Marney' looks like today. Click HERE to see 'Marney' on google earth and HERE on bing. Photo from Selections From the Work of James O'Connor.

The Sidney Z. Mitchell Estate

The Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell estate designed by James O'Connor c. 1924 in Matinecock with landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers and O'Connor. Mitchell was the chairman of the board of Electric Bond & Share Co. and founder of Northwest Electric Supply & Construction Company. The house was demolished c. 1950 but click HERE to see where it stood on google earth and HERE to see what replaced it on bing. Photo from Selections From the Work of James O'Connor.