Old Long Island

'Mayfair', the Elihu Root estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1896 in Southampton.  Click HERE for more on 'Mayfair' and HERE to see the residence on bing.

'Burrwood', the Walter Jennings estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1899 in Cold Spring Harbor.  Click HERE for all previous posts on 'Burrwood' which has since been demolished.

'Ox Pasture', the Salem Howe Wales estate built c. 1880 and later enlarged by Carrere & Hastings in Southampton.  Wales was a partner and managing editor of Scientific American magazine, president of the New York City's Park Commission and New York City's Dock Commission, and founder and trustee of the Hahnemann Hospital, the New York Homeopathic Medical College and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  His daughter was married to Elihu Root who also had a residence by Carrere & Hastings nearby named 'Mayfair'.  'Ox Pasture' is no longer extant.

'Mayfair', the Elihu Root estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1896 in Southampton.  Click HERE for more on 'Mayfair' and HERE to see the residence on bing.

 'Linden Hill', the Richard Flint Howe estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1915 (with alterations in 1917 and 1927) in Brookville.  Howe was married to Abby Deering, daughter of William Deering of the Deering Harvester Company, later the International Harvester Company.  He was a partner, secretary, treasurer and director at the International Harvester Co.  His son William Deering Howe resided at 'Highpool', also by Carrere & Hastings c. 1926 at the northern end of the property (now Long Island Lutheran High School).  Howe's brother-in-law James Deering owned 'Vizcaya' in Miami.  'Linden Hill' burned down c. 1970 after becoming the Tam O'Shanter Club, click HERE to see on google earth.  Click HERE to see the still extant outbuildings to the estate on bing which appear to be a separate residence.  Click HERE to see a 1966 aerial shot of the property.

An aerial of 'Burrwood', the Walter Jennings estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1899 in Cold Spring Harbor.  Click HERE for more on 'Burrwood' (be sure to scroll past today's post).  Photo from the Aiglon Archives.

 'Longfields', the William Payne Thompson Jr. estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1910 in Old Westbury.  The estate was inherited by Thompson's nephew William Payne Thompson Preston Sr. in the early 1930s and these photos are courtesy of his daughter, Elizabeth Preston Hutchings.  The estate was sold to Ambrose Clark in the 1940s and the house was eventually demolished so Clark could incorporate the property into his adjacent estate 'Broad Hollow House'.  Click HERE for more on 'Longfields' and HERE to see the estate ruins as they look today.

 'Bagatelle', the Thomas Hastings estate designed by himself c. 1908 in Old Westbury.  The residence is pictured here after it was entirely rebuilt along the original plans after a fire destroyed the first incarnation in 1913.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Bagatelle'.




Photos from American Architect & Architecture, 1914.

 'Knole', originally built for Herman Duryea by Carrere & Hastings c. 1903 in Old Westbury and for many years the Bradley Martin estate.  Click HERE and HERE for more on 'Knole'.  Click HERE to see 'Knole' on google earth and HERE on bing.



Photos from Scientific American, 1904.

'Burrwood', the Walter Jennings estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1899 in Cold Spring Harbor. Jennings was vice-president, secretary and a director of Standard Oil.  Click HERE, HERE and HERE for more on 'Burrwood'.  Click HERE for the section on 'Burrwood' in the 1992 AIA Guide to Nassau & Suffolk Counties.  'Burrwood' was demolished a couple of years later.  The house that replaced 'Burrwood' is currently for sale for $14,750,000, click HERE to see the listing via Daniel Gale Sotheby's.



Photos from The Brickbuilder, 1900.

 'Woodfold', the Robert Scott Lovett estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1911 in Lattingtown.  Lovett, an attorney, was general counsel and later president of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Rail Roads.  Lovett also had Carrere & Hastings design a stable, farmhouse and gardner's cottage as well as alterations to the main residence in 1915 and 1925.  The estate's subsequent owner, Albert Henry Diebold, founder of Neuralgyline Co., had C&H design alterations in 1927.  The estate was later owned by Diebold's son Trevor Diebold.  'Woodfold' was demolished sometime in the late 1940s.  Click HERE to see where 'Woodfold' stood and HERE to see the entrance gates to the estate.  The stable seen in the photo below that sat across from the entrance to the house are extant, click HERE to see the site on bing.




Photos from The Brickbuilder, 1913.

'Ontare', the James Alonzo Blair Sr. estate designed by Carrere & Hastings c. 1910 in Oyster Bay Cove. G. Clinton Mackenzie designed the estate's barns. Blair was a founding partner of the investment banking firm of Blair & Co. The interior of the house has since been split into two homes and continues to function that way today. Click HERE to see 'Ontare' on google earth and HERE on bing. Click HERE to see James A.'s brother C. Ledyard Blair's 'Blairsden' estate by Carrere & Hastings in New Jersey.

'Bagatelle', the Thomas Hastings estate designed by himself (of Carrere & Hastings) c. 1908 in Old Westbury. This was the first incarnation of 'Bagatelle' that would go on to burn down but Hastings would rebuild to the same specifications in 1913. Click HERE for more on 'Bagatelle' and HERE to see 'Bagatelle' as it looks today. Click HERE to see 'Bagatelle' on google earth and HERE on bing.