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Idle Hour is a former Vanderbilt estate that is located in Oakdale on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. It was completed in 1901 for William Kissam Vanderbilt . Once part of Dowling College , the mansion is one of the largest houses in the United States .
"Idle Hour" country estate in Oakdale, Long Island, New York, was built in 1878–79 and destroyed by fire in 1899. A new "Idle Hour", designed by Hunt's son Richard Howland Hunt, was built on the same property from 1900–01 of brick and marble in the English Country Style and is now part of the former Dowling College campus. [2]
Idle Hour Café, also known as Idle Hour, is a historic bar and restaurant located at 4824 Vineland Avenue in North Hollywood's NoHo Arts District in Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1941, it is best known for the programmatic architecture of the building it is in. The building was declared Los Angeles Cultural-Historic Monument #977 in 2010. [1]
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 addition to this property, and his Long Island estate, Eagle's Nest, which was designed by Warren & Wetmore, [15] Vanderbilt also owned a farm in Tennessee and Kedgwick Lodge, a hunting lodge designed for his father by architect Stanford White, on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick, Canada.
Idle Hour, Oakdale, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York State, USA; the former Vanderbilt estate Idle Hours , Beaumont, Texas, USA; an NRHP-listed country house Idle Hour Stock Farm , Lexington, Kentucky, USA; a former thoroughbred horse farm
The William K. Vanderbilt House or the Petit Chateau in 1886, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of architecture of the United States.
The house nicknamed "Idle Hours" was built in 1903 by architect Frank T. Smith for L.P. Ogden and his wife Cynthia.Because the house was considered to be out in the country at the time of its construction, Mrs. Ogden preferred to retain her town home and named her new country estate "Idle Hours".