"Bonnie Blink" (Lake Success, New York)

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, Federal style (architecture)

Estate home designed c. 1916 in the Federal style by Horace Trumbauer with on originally 112 acres of land for Henry Phipps, Jr {industrialist}. Phipps served as partner with Andrew J. Carnegie, Bidwell & Phipps, and Kloman & Phipps.

The 39-room mansion was completed in 1919 and was named" Bonnie Blink", which is Scottish for 'pretty view'. Trumbauer's chief associate, Julian Abele, is credited with much of the design. Olmsted was commissioned to design landscaping from 1915-16. This was the family summer home. It was said that they filled forty steamer trunks for their twice-yearly moves from Newport to Great Neck to Palm Beach, each time reportedly backing a private freight car up to the Great Neck railroad station to receive their baggage.

Phipps passed in 1930. From 1940-43 thirty British children, evacuated from their homes because of World War II, lived in the Phipps house. None of Henry's five children wanted the house in Great Neck, so, consistent with their interest in public education, and for tax purposes, they donated the mansion and nine acres to the Great Neck Public School District in 1949. The rest of the nearly 115-acre site was purchased by the district. In 1950, the Phipps mansion was converted into the Phipps Administration Building. An extension was added in 1966.

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