"Hillwood" Stables (Brookville, New York)

 stable, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, historical layer / disappeared object, outbuilding

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The J.M. Ladge Speech and Hearing Center started off as the horse stable for the for the “Hillwood” estate owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post. At its height, the estate was completely self-sufficient; growing fruits and vegetables as well as having a dairy and cattle farm on site. It was purchased from the Post family in the 1950’s for $200,000 which would equate to about $2 million if adjusted for inflation. The outside of the building was covered with cedar shingling and a charming curved roofline much like a ski jump like the other original estate outbuildings. In the 1960’s, the side wings of the stable were relocated to the south side of campus and a two-story building was constructed with classrooms, laboratories, and offices with only the original center portion retained. The C.W. Post radio station WCWP had its humble start in this structure—founded by S. Arthur Beltrone '63 and Prof. Virgil Jackson Lee 1960 as a closed-circuit radio station to provide entertainment and information for the campus community. From a small studio and control room within the former stables, WCWP first signed on the air at 12:00pm, October 18, 1961. Three years later the building was converted into a speech and hearing center dedicated in November, 1964 in memory of J. Mark Ladge. Today the Ladge Speech and Hearing Center is an ASLHACAA-accredited clinic that assists those with communication and related disorders with a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for children and adults. They offer specialized programs for individuals facing aphasia, feeding groups, accent reduction services, and language enrichment for preschool students. The center also serves as a supervised clinical training center for graduate seeking certification in speech-language pathology, accredited by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and licensed by the state of New York.

It was demolished in 2022.