"Mallow" (Oyster Bay Cove, New York)

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, Georgian (architecture)

Estate home designed c. 1918 in the Georgian Revival style by William Welles Bosworth on originally 135 acres for Walter Farwell {capitalist, merchant}. Farwell served as director of Capitol Freehold Land Investment Co. which had land holdings in Texas, and vice president of the John V. Farwell & Co. dry goods firm. The estate also has a carriage house/garage outbuilding.

The property at 31 Yellow Cote Road dates back to 1704, when Thomas Young was granted land in Yellow Coat Hallow. The farm at one time contained more than 80 acres. There were many owners of the farms over the centuries, among them the Townsends, one of the founding families of Oyster Bay, from whom it is believed the road got its name. In the early 1900s, the newly formed Yellowcote Land Company acquired a portion of the land. The 26-room brick residence was later sold to Charles Cushing and later Benjamin Van Doren Hedges, II.

The newly-formed East Woods School bought the 14 acres poperty in 1948. The school was able to acquire additional acres from neighbors, which were then converted to playing fields. Architect Everett Post made the initial recommendations for converting the house into a school.

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