'Fairlawn'

'Fairlawn', the Theodore Frelinghuysen Jackson residence built c. 1902 in Westhampton Beach. Jackson, an attorney, studied law in Manhasset under Judge Horatio Onderdonk. He was president of the Union Ferry Co. of Brooklyn and the New York and East River Ferry Co. Jackson was also Brooklyn City Comptroller from 1889-1891. He died in 1913 at the age of 83. 'Fairlawn' was demolished in a controlled fire set by the Westhampton Fire Department on behalf of the home's final owner, Henry L. O'Brien (thanks to Anne Surchin, co-author of Houses of the Hamptons, for that last bit of info).

Malcolm House

Originally belonging to the Townsend family, Dr. James Townsend (born in 1729) moved to the homestead with his wife Mary Hicks.  After his death in 1790, the house was sold to John Jackson, a descendant of Robert Jackson, an original settler to Hempstead.  John Jackson's great granddaughter Phoebe married James Malcolm sometime in the early 19th Century, and the house remained in the Malcolm's hands until it was deeded to Nassau County in 1974.  Click HERE to see the homestead on google earth.

'The Monastery'

'The Monastery', the Mrs. Farquhar Ferguson estate designed by Allen W. Jackson c. 1908 in Huntington Bay. Click HERE for more on 'The Monastery'.

Photos from The Touchstone by Mary Fanton Roberts, 1917.

'Fairlawn'

'Fairlawn', the Theodore F. Jackson residence built c. 1902 in Westhampton Beach.  Click HERE for more on 'Fairlawn' which has since been demolished.

'The Monastery'

'The Monastery', the Mrs. Farquhar Ferguson estate designed by Allen W. Jackson c. 1908 in Huntington Bay.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'The Monastery' which has since been demolished.

'The Monastery'

A 1925 advertisement for 'The Monastery', the Mrs. Farquhar Ferguson estate designed by Allen W. Jackson c. 1908 in Huntington Bay. Click HERE and HERE for more on 'The Monastery'.

'The Point'

'The Point', originally built for John Alsop King, Jr. by Alexander Jackson Davis c. 1854 in Kings Point. The Village of Kings Point is named for King, who was also an attorney and NY State Senator. The estate was purchased c. 1900 by Richard N.L. Church (who gave it the name 'The Point'), partner in Church & Dwight Co., Inc., which made Arm & Hammer Baking Soda among other things. In 1951 the estate was sold to Herman Brickman, an attorney for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, who turned the property into his family compound. The 14 acre compound along with the A.J. Davis house and a number of additional buildings is for sale for $39,500,000, click HERE to see the listing on Coldwell Banker. Click HERE to see 'The Point' on google earth and HERE on bing.

Listing photos from Coldwell Banker.

'The Monastery'

'The Monastery', the Mrs. Farquhar Ferguson (née Juliana Armour) estate designed by Allen W. Jackson c. 1908 in Huntington Bay under the supervision of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Armour was heir to the Armour & Company meatpacking business founded by her family. She died in 1921 and the following owner, widow of publisher W.J. Connors, eventually attempted to donate the house to science in 1930. Her offer was taken up by a cancer hospital run by doctors from California but they were unable to secure tax-exempt status on the property after push back from the community and it appears the deal fell through. The house was sold again in 1936 and continued to be privately owned until 1964 when Suffolk County took possession of the estate in lieu of $100,000 in back taxes owed on the property. There seems to have been a plan for the Huntington Arts Council to acquire the property but that never materialized. Six years later in early 1970 demolition on the house began to mixed reaction from the community. The NYTimes quoted the village police as reporting "150 youths a night on the 12.5 acre castle site" where the walls had "long since been stripped of their ornamental tiles and sculpture by vandals in recent years and were now full of graffiti." The Times also quoted a workman doing demolition as saying the house was "built better than the Empire State Building" and that the walls, some few feet thick in places, "succumbed reluctantly to battering" from the wrecker's ball. The estate is also known as 'Ferguson's Castle' and 'Ferguson's Folly'. The property was eventually subdivided. Click HERE to see where 'The Monastery' stood on google earth. Click below to see 'The Monastery' intact in a 1953 aerial. Advertisement from Architecture, 1923.

'Cassleigh'

'Cassleigh', the Augustus Cass Canfield estate designed by McKim, Mead & White c. 1902 in North Hills.  Canfield was the son of Capt. Canfield of the United States Topographical Engineers and on his mother's side was grandson of Gen. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson.  He was a designer of schooners and was a prominent club and yachtsman.  Canfield died in 1904 before the house was completed.  His wife went on to remarry in 1907 and lived on the estate until 1915.  'Cassleigh' was later purchased by John Dennis Ryan who renamed the estate 'Derrymore'.  Ryan was chairman and president of Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and president of the Montana Power Co. among numerous other positions.  The residence was demolished c. 1940 and part of the property now makes up Christopher Morley Park, click HERE to see the location on google earth.

Photos from Scientific American, 1905.

The E.D. Church Residence

The Elihu Dwight Church residence originally built for Theodore F. Jackson c. 1902 in Westhampton Beach.  Church was the chairman of the board of Church & Dwight Co., Inc.  Click HERE for more on the residence.