"Thatch Cottage"/"Gullwing Cottage" (Centre Island, New York)

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast

Estate home designed c. 1920 in the French Norman style by Mrs. John E. McLeran for Charles E. Pettinos {industrialist}. Pettinos served as founder and president of the Charles E. Pettinos & Co./Pettinos Brothers graphite firm. A portion of the original brickyard was purchased around 1920 from Wetmore and Bullock.

The estate was sold to Sherman Mills Fairchild {industrialist} who renamed it "Gullwing Cottage" and removed the thatching in May of 1928. In addition to being one of the largest heirs to the IBM fortune, was an inventor and entrepreneur; founding over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aircraft, Fairchild Industries, Fairchild Aviation Corporation, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, and Fairchild Semi-Conductor.

Fairchild sold the home to the pioneering Opthalmologist Ramon Castroviejo. It was in turn owned by Henry Stillman Taylor a noted yachtsman and descendant of one of John D. Rockefeller's original partners. The home was then sold to William E. Weiss of the Weiss family who founded the Sterling Drug Company who sold to the current owners.

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