"Wolver Hollow" (Upper Brookville, New York)

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, movie / film / TV location, Colonial Revival (architecture)

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Estate home designed c. 1914 in the Colonial Revival style by Hoppin & Koen on originally 220 acres of land for Charles Oliver Iselin {financier}. Iselin served as a member of the Iselin & Co. investment banking firm. Subsequent alterations to "Wolver Hollow" were carried out to designs by Warren & Wetmore and Mrs. Iselin made further alterations in 1941 based on designs by Harrie T. Lindeberg. During the Iselin's ownership, the Olmsted Brothers, Beatrix Farrand and Ellen Biddle Shipman were all major contributor's to "Wolver Hollow"'s landscape design.

At the time Upper Brookville was incorporated as a village in 1932 eight of the land owners in the yet to be formed village proposed the name "Lower Brookville". When Hope Goddard Iselin heard the name Lower Brookville proposed, she is said to have haughtily replied: "I refuse to live in lower anything. If you must call it something, and I suppose you must, call it Upper Brookville." In 1970 Mrs. Iselin died at the age of 102. The estate has since been subdivided with the original home remaining on just under 8 acres. Later owned by Joan Chapin Hutton who lived prior at "Mariemont" in Brookville. The former horse stables are extant as a private residence.

The estate was used extensively as a filming location for the CBS series "Madam Secretary".

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