Showing posts with label Sands Point. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sands Point. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

'Villa Carola'

'Villa Carola', the Isaac Guggenheim estate designed by Howard Van Buren Magonigle c. 1916 in Sands Point.  Click HERE for more on 'Villa Carola', now the Village Club of Sands Point.

Monday, July 18, 2016

'Falaise'

'Falaise', the Harry F. Guggenheim estate designed by Frederick J. Sterner and Polhemus & Coffin c. 1923 in Sands Point.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Falaise'.

Monday, August 24, 2015

'Falaise'

 'Falaise', the Harry F. Guggenheim estate designed by Frederick J. Sterner and Polhemus & Coffin c. 1923 in Sands Point as pictured c. 1973.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Falaise' and HERE to see the house on bing.







Photos courtesy of Old Grey Dog.

Monday, April 27, 2015

'Beacon Towers'

'Beacon Towers', originally built for Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont by Hunt & Hunt c. 1917 in Sands Point and later owned by William Randolph Hearst.  Click HERE for all previous posts on 'Beacon Towers'.

Monday, March 9, 2015

'Castlegould'

The stables to 'Castlegould'/'Hempstead House' designed by Augustus N. Allen c. 1902 in Sands Point.  Click HERE for all previous posts on the estate.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

'Hempstead House'

'Hempstead House', originally the Howard Gould estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1909 in Sands Point and later owned by Daniel Guggenheim.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Hempstead House'.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

'The Chimneys'

 'The Chimneys', the Bettie Fleischmann Holmes estate designed by Edgar Irving Williams c. 1929 in Sands Point.  Click HERE for more and HERE to see the residence on bing.

Photos from the Parke-Bernet Galleries Catalog, 1942.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

'Beacon Towers'

'Beacon Towers', originally the Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont estate designed by Richard Howland Hunt c. 1917 in Sands Point and pictured here in 1931 under subsequent owner William Randolph Hearst.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Beacon Towers'.  Photo from the Museum of the City of New York.

Monday, July 28, 2014

'Hempstead House'

 'Hempstead House' originally built for Howard Gould by Richard Howland Hunt c. 1909 and later owned by Daniel Guggenheim.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Hempstead House'.








Photos from the Museum of the City of New York.

Monday, March 3, 2014

'Beacon Towers'

'Beacon Towers', the Alva Vanderbilt Belmont estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1917 in Sands Point and pictured here under the subsequent Hearst ownership.  Click HERE for all previous posts on 'Beacon Towers'.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

'Sandy Cay' Advertisement

An advertisement for 'Sandy Cay', the Conde Nast estate built c. 1930 in Sands Point.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Sandy Cay' which burned down in the 1950s.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

'The Lindens' Stable Group

The James O'Connor designed stables complex to 'The Lindens', the Julius Fleischmann estate designed by Augustus N. Allen c. 1910 in Sands Point.  Click HERE for more on 'The Lindens'.

Monday, October 28, 2013

'The Lindens'

'The Lindens', the Julius Fleischmann estate designed by Augustus N. Allen c. 1910 in Sands Point with a stables building designed by James O'Connor.  Fleischmann was president of Fleischmann's Yeast, yeast manufacturers, following a lengthy term by his father Charles.  His sister Bettie Fleischmann Holmes resided at 'The Chimneys', also in Sands Point.  Click HERE to see 'The Lindens' on google earth and HERE to see it on bing.

Monday, October 21, 2013

'Beacon Towers'

'Beacon Towers', the Alva Vanderbilt Belmont estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1917 in Sands Point.  Click HERE for all previous posts on 'Beacon Towers'.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

'Elm Court' Aeiral

'Elm Court', the Edgar F. Luckenbach estate designed by Egerton Swartwout c. 1921.  Click HERE to see a brochure from when 'Elm Court' was for sale.  Photo from the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

'Beacon Towers'

 'Beacon Towers', the Alva Vanderbilt Belmont estate designed by Hunt & Hunt c. 1917 in Sands Point.  Click HERE for all the previous posts on 'Beacon Towers'.  Photos courtesy of SPLIA.


Tuesday, October 8, 2013

'Villa Carola'

 'Villa Carola', the Isaac Guggenheim estate designed by Howard Van Buren Magonigle c. 1916 in Sands Point.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Villa Carola'.

Photos from Arts & Decoration, 1919.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

'Mille Fleurs'

'Mille Fleurs', the Florence Guggenheim estate designed by Polhemus & Coffin c. 1932 in Sands Point.  Click HERE for more on 'Mille Fleurs'.  Photo from SMU's Robert Yarnall Richie collection.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

'Falaise'

'Falaise', the Harry F. Guggenheim estate designed by Polhemus & Coffin c. 1923 in Sands Point.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Falaise'.  Photo from SMU's Robert Yarnall Richie collection.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

'Villa Carola'

'Villa Carola', the Isaac Guggenheim estate designed by Howard Van Buren Magonigle c. 1916 in Sands Point.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Villa Carola'.  Photo from the Ryerson & Burnham Archive at the Art Institute of Chicago.