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DeMille's home Long Island is a setting in many parts of his novels, as in The Gold Coast, The Gate House, Plum Island, Word of Honor, Night Fall, and Radiant Angel. His most recent novels have followed two main characters, John Corey (starring in seven novels) and Paul Brenner (starring in two novels, with also a part in Corey's sixth novel).
The Gate House is a 2008 novel by American author ... he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the ...
The North Shore of Long Island is the area along the northern coast of New York's Long Island bordering Long Island Sound. Known for its extreme wealth and lavish estates, the North Shore exploded into affluence at the turn of the 20th century, earning it the nickname the Gold Coast . [ 1 ]
The mansion, built by Kahn between 1914 and 1919, is the largest private home in New York, and the second largest in the United States, comprising 127 rooms and over 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m 2), as originally configured. It is said to be built on the highest point on Long Island. [2] The castle is now a hotel with 32 guest rooms and suites. It ...
Part of the Long Island campus of St. John's University [57] Burrwood 1898–1899 Carrère and Hastings: Long Island: One of the Gold Coast Mansions, has been torn down more images: Henry W. Poor House (also known as Poor's Palace and Woodland) 1899: Jacobean: T. Henry Randall: Tuxedo Park: Later owned by Henry Morgan Tilford [58] more images ...
The Delamater-Bevin Mansion, also known as The Bevin House, is a historic 22-room Victorian mansion on the north shore of Long Island within the Incorporated Village of Asharoken, New York. The estate is on the Eatons Neck landmass on the edge of Duck Island Harbor, an inlet of Northport Bay, off Long Island Sound .
Winfield Hall, like many other Long Island mansions, has ghostlore associated with it. [5] It is said that on the evening of May 2, 1917, as Edna Woolworth Hutton, Frank Woolworth's middle daughter, took her own life at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, while her father was at Winfield Hall hosting a party, a somewhat bizarre and unexplained incident occurred.
Harbor Hill: the Gold Coast, Long Island estate of Clarence Hungerford Mackay was one of the 10 largest residences in America; Hempstead House: the massive Gould-Guggenheim estate, and now park, on Long Island's gold coast in Sands Point, New York; Hyde Park: the Hudson Valley estate of Frederick W. Vanderbilt.