Old Westbury Gardens, exterior with lawn and driveOld Westbury Gardens Eagle’s Nest, exterior across lawnEagle’s Nest Coindre Hall, exterior, entrance towersCoindre Hall Hempstead House, exterior, north facade and gardensHempstead House Coe Hall, exterior across lawnCoe Hall Mill Neck Manor, exterior, frontMill Neck Manor
Oheka Castle, exterior with forecourt fountain
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Oheka Castle

Open Cold Spring Hills, Suffolk County, built 1914 to 1917

Oheka is the country house that the banker Otto Hermann Kahn built in the Cold Spring Hills section of Huntington between 1914 and 1917, to designs by Delano & Aldrich, with 127 rooms as first built. After decades of neglect it was saved by Gary Melius, who bought the ruined house in 1984 and has spent more than 40 years and about $40 million bringing it back. With his daughter Nancy he has made Oheka a hotel, a restaurant and a wedding and event venue, with guided tours that open the house to the public.

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Gold Coast Mansions you can visit

All 13 open Gold Coast Mansions

  • Castle Gould

    Open Sands Point, 1902 to 1904

    Castle Gould is the granite stable and carriage complex that Howard Gould, a son of the financier Jay Gould, built at Sands.

  • Caumsett

    Open Lloyd Harbor (Lloyd Neck), 1922 to 1925

    Caumsett is the country estate that Marshall Field III, grandson of the Chicago department store founder, created on Lloyd Neck after buying.

  • Clayton

    Open Roslyn Harbor, 1900

    Clayton is the Roslyn Harbor estate that now houses the Nassau County Museum of Art. The publisher Lloyd Stephens Bryce built the.

  • Coe Hall

    Open Upper Brookville, 1919 to 1920

    Coe Hall is the Tudor Revival main house at Planting Fields, the Upper Brookville estate of William Robertson Coe and Mai Rogers.

  • Coindre Hall

    Open Huntington, 1910 to 1912

    Coindre Hall is the French chateau-style house that George McKesson Brown built on Huntington Harbor between about 1910 and 1912. The National.

  • Eagle’s Nest

    Open Centerport, 1910 to 1936

    Eagle's Nest is the Centerport estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, a great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. It began as a small cottage,.

Gold Coast Mansions on video

Special report: Long Island's Gold Coast Mansions

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Special report: Long Island's Gold Coast Mansions. Video: Chris Collura.

Long Island Gold Coast Mansions, Part I

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Long Island Gold Coast Mansions, Part I. Video: GoldCoastMansions.com.

Long Island Gold Coast Mansions, Part II

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Long Island Gold Coast Mansions, Part II. Video: GoldCoastMansions.com.

Long Island's Gold Coast Mansions, Part II: Coindre Hall

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Long Island's Gold Coast Mansions, Part II: Coindre Hall. Video: Chris Collura.

Mill Neck Manor (Sefton Manor)

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Mill Neck Manor (Sefton Manor). Video: GoldCoastMansions.com.

Gold Coast Mansions gala for Long Island History Month

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Gold Coast Mansions gala for Long Island History Month. Video: GoldCoastMansions.com.

The lost Gold Coast Mansions

All 14 lost Gold Coast Mansions

  • Beacon Towers

    Remains Sands Point, 1917 to 1918

    Beacon Towers was a white stucco castle on the shore at Sands Point, built in 1917 and 1918 for Alva Belmont, the.

  • Brookholt

    Gone East Meadow, 1897

    Brookholt was the East Meadow country house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and his wife Alva, the former Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt..

  • Farnsworth

    Remains Matinecock

    Farnsworth was the Long Island country house of C. K. G. Billings, a Chicago industrialist and horseman, in the area now usually.

The Gold Coast in books and on film

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck in 1922 and 1923 and set the novel across Manhasset Bay. Which Gold Coast Mansions stood behind West Egg and East Egg, the four films, and what a visitor can still see.

Gatsby and the Gold Coast

Gold Coast Mansions by architect

Gold Coast Mansions by family