'Templeton' II, possibly built for Elbridge T. Gerry II c. 1924 and later owned by Winston Guest and wife C.Z. after they moved from their other estate known as 'Templeton', which can be seen HERE. The house and 15 acres is currently for sale for $9,700,000 after carrying a $20 million price tag a year or so ago. Click HERE to see the listing via Daniel Gale / Sotheby's. Click HERE to see 'Templeton' II on google earth and HERE on bing.
Listing photos from Daniel Gale / Sotheby's.
An aerial of Frederick Guest's 'Templeton' in Brookville, designed by Carrere & Hastings in 1918 (originally for Alfred duPont). Click HERE for more on 'Templeton'.
'Templeton' was built in 1916 by Carrere & Hastings, originally named 'White Eagle' for Alicia du Pont. In 1921 the house was put up for auction and bid on by numerous neighboring estate owners, the description of which can be read in a NY Times article entitled 'Rich Bidders Vie For DuPont Estate'. Two days later a follow up article clarified who was actually going to occupy the house, Frederick Guest and his wife Amy Phipps ('Mrs. Guest Buyer of DuPont Estate'). Today the house belongs to NYIT.
Henry Phipps hired Towbridge & Livingston to design him a marble mansion at the corner of 87th Street and 5th Avenue in 1905. The house stood there until Henry's death in 1930, at which point his wife sold the lot to a developer and had the house demolished, but not before removing the entire white marble facade and shipping it out to her daughter Amy's estate 'Templeton' in Brookville. It sat there in a field for many years, waiting for something to happen to it. It still sits unassembled in a back lot, slowly eroding away.
Some of the large columns that flanked the front entrance to the house.
The rear of 'Templeton', the Frederick Guest estate in Brookville. Today the house is run as the DeSeversky Conference Center and is owned by NYIT.
The view looking out from the front of the house. In the distance is the second of two giant urns that originally sat in front of 'Pembroke'. 
The lower level of the terrace is slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Templeton as it looks on a sunny day in May. For more on Templeton click HERE.
The rear of the house, which faces a pond in the distance.
Click below to se 'Templeton' in a 1966 aerial shot.
This urn originally sat in front of Pembroke, Joseph DeLamar's estate in Glen Cove (seen below). When Pembroke was unfortunately demolished in 1968, the urn along with its duplicate were moved to Templeton, the Frederick Guest estate in Brookville. At the time the house had already been purchased by NYIT to be used as a conference center. After a 50 year life at Pembroke, the urn can still be seen today, 40 years after it moved 6 miles to its new home in front of Templeton.
