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Welcome to GoldCoastMansions.com the online source forvisiting Long Island, NY's Gold Coast Mansions. In the grand era of the Great Gatsby (novel by F Scott Fitzgerald) and the industrial revolution - great fortunes were made by many. Wealthy industrialists made Long Island their home creating many Gold Coast Mansions. Grand estates were built many of which imported various fixtures, materials and art pieces from around the world. Although many of these homes proved to be to large and inefficient to maintain, and were demolished for smaller developments, some fortunately still remain for the world to tour and enjoy.
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Some of the Gold Coast Mansion's are still maintained in a similar way to their original beginnings. Some have original roofing, fixtures, some utilize replacements from the same providers of the original items, some utilize pieces of the original furniture and art. Most notibly some keep vast and beautiful gardens.
One of the greatest of the Gold Coast Mansion's was & is the Phipps Mansion. Located in Old Westbury, Long Island, New York, this beautiful mansion has been maintained and available to the public due to the forsight and life work of the families children. The Phipps family is a testament to generosity as the family has chosen to recognize the importance of their family home and offer it, it's place in history. They have shared their beautiful home and grounds, and managed this as a private trust, preserving it for the public, while assuring it's care is maintained with their own oversight, not dependent on public funding. This is why when you visit this impressive Gold Goast Mansion now referred to as Old Westbury Gardens, you can see it today as it was, it in it's full splendor. This is a grand mansion, with exceptional gardens and exceptional upkeep. Read more about Old Westbury Gardens to find out more... The Phipps family are Long Island's greatest hosts, from whom we are enriched by their example. During a 2009 Christmas party, Mary Phipps quietly walked throught halls smiling as the invited guests toured the home and enjoyed the event. Many did not recognize her and she seemed pleased to watch the guests enjoy their time.
Tremendous in size and stature is the Oheka Castle. This was the second largest private residence in the United States. Today it is utilized for many corporate events, as a luxury hotel, and is also available for tours. The large mansion was renovated throughout by Gary Melius who restored and some would say enhanced the home from it's original state.
The Vanderbilt Mansion is an example of the oppulence and promise of the time.. A symbol of the success of the 1920's are the Vanderbilts. The Vanderbilt mansion built in 1910 is now a museum & planetarium. It is located on the north shore of Western Suffolk County in Centerport, Long Island. It is worth the trip, Mansion tours are available. It has one of the most impressive views of the Long Island Sound. This mansion has an authentic feel for the time period it was created during the great industrial revolution of our nation's history. Throughout the mansion there is an eccentric excess of taxidermy, not likely to have survived PETA or this centruries critics.This is a must see Goldcoast Mansion. Tour Vanderbilt Mansion now..
Beacon Towers Founder: Alva Belmont 1917
Noted: Prominent women's activist, married to William Vanderbilt, remarried to Oliver Belmont. Style: 140 room medieval castle, replica of an Irish Castle. Inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's book "The Great Gatsby". VIDEO BELOW - by Simmorris - Full Screen
Sold to: William Randolph Hearst who sold in 1942 Taken Down in 1945 - Read more..Today: The gatehouse exists as a private residence. Structural remnants such as iron gates, stone pieces are scattered locally.
"The Braes" or "The Pratt Mansion" 1912 Founder: Herbert L Pratt, son of Charles Pratt Noted: (Standard Oil Fame) Location: 26 acre beachfront situated in Glen Cove, NY Style: Neo Jacobean Style Architechtect: James Brite Today: Webb Institute Of Naval Architecture
Marshall Field Mansion - 1922 Founder: Marshall Field III Noted: Heir To Marshall Field Dept Store. Founder Chicago Sun, Investment banker, had race horses - Location: Lloyd Neck - Town of Huntington, Long Island NY - Architecht: John Russell Pope- Today: Caumsett State Historic Park
Chelsea Benjamin Moore Estate - Muttontown Preserve
Muttontown, Long Island, NY
Chelsea Mansion - Benjamin Moore Estate
A 40 room mansion built in 1924 for Benjamin Moore. He was the grandson of the poet who wrote "It was the night before Christmas".
Chelsea, the Benjamin Moore estate in Muttontown's architect interpreted the farmhouses of Provence and houses of the Yangtze River to produce a with a corner tourelle on a white stucco house surrounded by a moat on two sides.
The use of less ostentatious exterior materials were used as the flamboyant styles of earlier Gold Coast structures had passed. Alexandra Moore lived in Chelsea as her home until she was 89 years old in 1983. Nassau County has it preserved and the public may access the grounds as well as book an outdoor event.
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Holmes Estate alsoCharles Porter Wilson, (chairman of A & P) estate then Mrs. C. Porter Wilson estate - designed by Charles Hart in 1928 in Mill Neck on 24 acres & 900 ft of waterfront. The house is now a Synogogue.
ClaytonThe Childs Frick Estate - 1919 Henry Clay Frick, U.S. Steel co founder, bought the Georgian mansion as a wedding gift for his son, Childsfrom William Cullen Bryant the poet and preservationist. Editor of the New York Evening Post, Bryant settled in Roslyn in 1843. For nearly half a century, Childs and Frances Frick lived at Clayton Estate with children, Adelaide, Frances, Martha and Clay. Frick died at the age of 81 in 1965. Nassau County purchased in in 1969 to house the Nassau County Museum of Art Glen Cove, Long Island, NY
Coindre HallGeorge
Brown Estate & Mansion
is a 1912 30,000 sft 40 room medieval French château on 34 acres on adjacent to the Long Island Sound. Built for George McKesson Brown a
pharmaceutical magnate
who lost ownership after 1929 stock market crash. A Suffolk County park today in Huntington Harbor,
Long Island, NY
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Sands PointPark and Preserve has three mansions; Castle Gould,
based on Kilkenny Castle in Ireland.
Falaise which has has thickly mortared walls, steep tile roofs and a medieval fortress-like tower. 16th century antiques, notable modern art and Renaissance paintings furnish the mansion built by Harry S. Guggenheim, The main residence Hempstead House, was created for railroad tycoon Jay Gould's son Harry.
The main residence, called Hempstead House, a massive 225 x 135 foot, 3 story, 40 rooms with an 80 ft. tower, Tudor manor house, was completed in 1912.The exterior is granite and Indiana limestone.. It was one of the most opulent Long Gold Coast homes on Long Island. The Sands Point Park and Preserve has hiking trails reaching to the Long Island Sound and a beach. Tours of Falaise are open to the public. Hempstead House Sands Point, Nassau County, LI, NY
Inisfada Mansion -
Nicholas F. and Genevieve Garvan Brady's house is shown with it's 29x87-ft. vaulted hall with English oak trusses.
Now a church Manhasset, Nassau County, LI, NY
Pembroke - DeLamar Mansion Charles P. H. Gilbert designed the largest in the world 82-room waterfront mansion for for Captain Joseph R. DeLamar. Postcard
The Donnell Estate"The Hill" Tudor 500 acre estate 1902-1927. Borded up in 1996. Restored in 2002 by C. A. Carr, Tribute Video by her son
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Idle Hour - William K. Vanderbilt Estate grandson of the railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, built his holiday residence on 900 acres east of the Connetquot River. The mansion was rebuilt in 1901 after a fire designed by Richard Howland Hunt. It was red brick and grey stone with 110 rooms. After the death of W.K. Vanderbilt, the estate was put up for sale by his son Harold K. Vanderbilt in 1920. Developers bought the mansion and its surrounding lands. The large wooded section of and extensive canals became a residential community known as Idle Hour. The farm area became an artist's colony.
The mansion and a large part of the estate are Now Dowling College in Oakdale, Suffolk County, LI, NY
Killenworth- George Pratt Estate
near brother John Pratt's neighboring Glen Cove Mansion. Killenworth is now the Russian Consulate. Brother Frederic's “Poplar Hill,” stone mansion is now a senior residence. Harold's Georgian mansion is Nassau County 's “Welwyn” Preserve.
King Zog Castle & Estate Ruins Muttontown, Nassau County, LI, NY - King Zog, Albania's last monarch, fled after the Italian invasion of 1939. In 1951 he acquired Muttontown's 150 acre, 60 room, granite Knollwood Estate originally built in for Wall Street's Charles Hudson in the early 20th century. Zog sold the estate to Lansdell Christie in 1955. Rumors to spread about riches hidden in the mansion's walls causing vandalism. It was demolished by the Christie family in 1959.
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- A 1910 Georgian Brick Gold Coast Mansion, designed by Adam Platt on 55 acres - built for John Pratt (attorney & Standard Oil executive), and Ruth Pratt (the first Rupublican Congresswoman from New York). Also referred to as "Manor House" now the Harrison Conference Center -Glen Cove, Nassau County, LI, NY
Oheka Castle - Otto Hermann Kahn Estate - Designed by
Delano & Aldrich with 127 rooms, 39 fireplaces, 50 baths, a grand staircase
inspired by the Chateau Fountainbleu in France
443 acres landscaped by the Olmstead Brothers was and still is the second largest private residence in the United States. Oheka fell into disrepair until 1983 when vast restoration began adding a ballroom to now have 115,000 sf - now exceptionally designed and maintained on 23 acres today. Now a special event venue and hotel. Tours and events available.
Old Westbury Gardens - Phipps Estate partner in Carnegie Steel
Old Westbury, Nassau County, LI, NY - Tours and events available
FW Woolworth Estate Crescent Beach Rd. Glen Cove, NY - Burned down in 1916 To Be Replaced by Winfield Hall (below).
Winfield Hall | Woolworth
Built 1916 in Glen Cove, NY
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Whitney Estate
William C. Whitney - Secretary of the Navy under Grover Cleveland, he revamped New York City's transportation system. Also a Lawyer and business man, he bought 630 acres in Old Westbury,LI, NY for a country estate. South of Northern Blvd., East of Glen Cove Rd. only 10.5 acres remain. More on the Whitney family estate.
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