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The original "Idle Hour", c. 1894 In 1878, Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt began building a lavish, wooden 110-room home known as Idle Hour, on a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River.
The upper reaches of the river including its headwaters are totally in the Connetquot River State Park Preserve or Lakeland County Park before it becomes an estuary.It starts just south of the Long Island Expressway from springs in the Lakeland County Park in Islandia where it is called Connetquot Brook.
Idle hour was a 900-acre (3.6 km 2) estate on the Connetquot River built in 1882 by William K. Vanderbilt. The wooden 110-room home was destroyed by fire April 15, 1899, while his son, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, was honeymooning there. Willie and his new wife escaped.
In 1882, William Kissam Vanderbilt built the most noted one, Idle Hour, 900-acre (3.6 km 2) on the Connetquot River. The lavish, wooden 110-room home was destroyed by fire on April 15, 1899, while his son, Willie K. II, was honeymooning there. Willie and his new wife escaped.
Connetquot River State Park Preserve is a 3,473-acre (14.05 km 2) state park [1] and conservation area in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. . The park contains the Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center as well as the Southside Sportsmens Club District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1
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