"Haut Bois"/"Malmaison" (Brookville, New York) | LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, movie / film / TV location, historic remains, French Renaissance (architecture)

USA / New York / Brookville / Brookville, New York
 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, movie / film / TV location, historic remains, French Renaissance (architecture)
Estate home designed c. 1916 in the French Renaissance style by Ogden Codman, Jr. on originally 21 acres of land for Walter Effingham Maynard {capitalist, financier, publisher}. Maynard served as president of Dranyam Realty Corp., vice president of Fifth Avenue Building Co., director of Detroit, Hillsdale & Southwest Railway Co., Metropolitan Trust Co., and Small, Maynard & Co.

The home included paneling imported from a French chateau. Landscaping by Ellen Biddle Shipman in 1930 with Jacques Geber who designed the garden, fountain, and reflecting pool. The estate was purchased by Patrice Munsel who renamed the estate "Malmaison" and subsequently by John L. Maddocks, Jr. in 1975.

It reportedly declined into near-ruinous shape following Maddocks' tenure until 1995, when it was sold and totally overhauled. The reflecting pool with fountain has since been replaced with a swimming pool. In 1993, Martin Scorcese used the estate for a scene in "The Age of Innocence" (1993).

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_Mansions
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Coordinates:   40°48'37"N   73°33'45"W

Comments

  • Does anyone have any other info about this house?
  • Monica Randall has a few pages and photos on this house in here book on Gold Coast mansions.
  • Its the Long Island home of Marc and JLO
  • This is not the Long Island Home of Marc Anthony and J. Lo.
  • possible owned by lead attorney in phen-phen mass tort.
  • owned by Robert Schuler and opera star wife, Patrice Munsel, during the 1960's.
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