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Oheka Castle, also known as the Otto Kahn Estate, is a hotel located on the North Shore (or "Gold Coast") of Long Island, in West Hills, New York, a hamlet in the town of Huntington. It was the country home of investment financier and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn and his family.
Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 – March 29, 1934) was an American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Kahn was a well-known figure, appearing on the cover of Time magazine and was sometimes referred to as the "King of New York".
Oheka II was a private motor yacht built for German-born American investment banker Otto Hermann Kahn by Lürssen in 1927. Capable of 34 knots top speed, she became the blueprint for the Kriegsmarine's Schnellboot. "Oheka" is an acronym of letters from Kahn's full name, Otto Herman Kahn.
Ottó Herman (26 June 1835 – 27 December 1914) was a Hungarian zoologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, and politician. A polymath recognized as a pioneer of Hungarian natural history research, he made numerous studies on Hungarian spiders, birds, and fishes, and founded the journal Natural History Notebooks and the ornithological journal Aquila.
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The Otto H. Kahn House is a mansion at 1 East 91st Street, at Fifth Avenue, in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The four-story mansion was designed by architects J. Armstrong Stenhouse and C. P. H. Gilbert in the neo- Italian Renaissance style.
Oheka Castle, Huntington, New York, on Long Island, 109,000-square-foot (10,100 m 2) Châteauesque style mansion built for Otto Hermann Kahn from 1914 to 1919. It is the second largest privately held home in the United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Olana, Greenport, New York.