"Hazeldean" (Sands Point, New York)

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast

Estate home designed c. 1904 in the Mediterranean style by Radcliffe & Kelly for James Lees Laidlaw {financier} on originally 20 acres of land. Laidlaw served as founder and president of Laidlaw & Co. investment firm (later Kuhn Brothers & Laidlaw). Laidlaw was also one of the original officers of the North Hempstead County Club in 1916.

The 16-room Stucco estate is 8000+sq ft with 8 baths, 4 fireplaces, and once included the acreage of Backus Farm Lane. Laidlaw died in 1932, his wife Harriet Wright Burton Laidlaw, a prominent suffragist, feminist and philanthropist, lived at the estate until her death in 1949.

Their only child Louise Burton Laidlaw and her husband Dana Converse Backus lived at "Hazeldean" through the 1970's, when it was still one of the few working farms in the area. The estate was sold off to a developer in the 1997 for a housing development which retained the main home which is now a designated Sands Point local landmark. The estate's Dutch barn was donated to the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society.

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