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After Vanderbilt's death in 1920, the mansion went through several phases and visitors, including a brief stay during Prohibition by gangster Dutch Schultz. [6] Around that time, cow stalls, pig pens and corn cribs on the farm portion of Idle Hour were converted into a short-lived bohemian artists' colony, known as the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, that included figures such as ...
Pollepel Island has been called many different names, including Pollopel Island, Pollopel's Island, Bannerman's Island, [1] and Bannermans' Island. [2] [3] Pollepel is a Dutch word meaning " ladle" The island is about 50 miles (80 km) north of New York City [4] and about 1,000 feet (300 m) from the Hudson River's eastern bank. [3]
New York City: Today, a Cartier store [87] [88] more images: Felix M. Warburg House: 1906: Châteauesque: C. P. H. Gilbert: New York City: Today, home to the Jewish Museum [62] Frederic W. Stevens House 1876 Châteauesque: George Harney: New York City: The house was demolished in 1919 Jacob Ruppert Sr House 1883 Second Empire: William Schickel ...
Litchfield Villa, or Grace Hill, is an Italianate mansion built in 1854–1857 on a large private estate now located in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. [2] It is located on Prospect Park West at 5th Street.
Mosher, Dave (October 8, 2017) "New York City owns a creepy island that almost no one is allowed to visit — here's what it's like" UK Business Insider; Seitz, Sharon & Miller, Stuart (2003) The Other Islands of New York. Woodstock, Vermont: Countryman Press. ISBN 0-88150-502-1. Staff (August 14, 1954) "Talk of the Town", The New Yorker, p. 15.
Occupied at the time by high-society dropouts "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Beale—aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—and their 52 cats, the crumbling mansion came dangerously close ...
Harbor Hill was a large Long Island mansion built from 1899 to 1902 in the present-day Village of East Hills, New York, for telecommunications magnate Clarence Hungerford Mackay. It was designed by McKim, Mead & White , with Stanford White supervising the project – the largest private residence he ever designed; it was demolished in 1949.
Woolworth Estate, also referred to Winfield Hall, is a historic estate located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York.It was designed in 1916 by architect C. P. H. Gilbert (1861–1952) for Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919).