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The Château de Chaumont (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto də ʃomɔ̃]), officially Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, is a castle (château) in Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France. The castle was founded in the 10th century by Odo I, Count of Blois. After Pierre d'Amboise rebelled against Louis XI, the king ordered the castle's ...
In 1869 W.A. Seaver wrote: "In times more modern (1613), some masons digging near the ruins of a castle in Dauphiné, in a field which by tradition had long been called 'The Giant's Field,' at a depth of 18 feet discovered a brick tomb 30 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 8 feet high, on which was a gray stone with the words 'Theutobochus Rex' cut thereon.
Added to NRHP. September 06, 1990. Chaumont Historic District is a national historic district located at Chaumont in Jefferson County, New York. The district includes 33 contributing buildings. District boundaries encompass 23 residences, one commercial building, one fraternal building, one church, and 15 associated outbuildings and objects.
The LeRay Mansion was originally built as the estate for James LeRay de Chaumont. James LeRay originally came to the North Country in order to regain his family’s fortune. Jacques Donatien LeRay de Chaumont, James LeRay’s father, was a French entrepreneur who loaned a considerable portion of his fortune to support the American Revolution.
The grounds contain two castle-like buildings; Hempstead House is the main house (approx 50,000 square feet), and a larger house known as Castle Gould (approx 100,000 square feet). The main house measures 225 ft long (69 m), 135 ft wide (41 m) and has three floors containing 40 rooms, punctuated by an 80-foot tower (24 m). [ 2 ]
Welwyn Preserve County Park is a 204-acre (0.83 km 2) public nature reserve in Glen Cove, on the North Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Welwyn Preserve was originally Welwyn Estate, the estate of the industrialist Harold I. Pratt. The main house, Welwyn, was one of the Gold Coast Mansions.
Chaumont (/ ʃ ə ˈ m oʊ / shə-MOH) [citation needed] is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States. Its population was 624 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] The village is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont , son of Benjamin Franklin's landlord and friend at Passy in France .
Website. www.nassaumuseum.com. The Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located on the former Frick "Clayton" Estate, a 145-acre (59 ha) property in Roslyn Harbor on the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York. The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold A. Saltzman and his wife Joan, is a three-story ...