"Northwood" II (Oyster Bay Cove, New York)

USA / New York / Oyster Bay Cove / Oyster Bay Cove, New York
 residence, Tudor (architecture), LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, 1948_construction
Built for John Mortimer Schiff on his father's property replacing an earlier Tudor house. Built after WWII in the Norman style. Garage and adjacent glass-roofed tennis court still survive. Part of estate now incorporated into the Tiffany Creek Preserve. Schiff served as chairman of the board of New York University from 1969-1978. He and his wife endowed the Dorothy Schiff Professorship in Genomics and the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance within FAS and Stern, respectively.

www.oldlongisland.com/2012/01/gardens-of-northwood.html
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/realestate/trying-to-preserv...
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www.nassaucountyny.gov/mynassauproperty/viewphoto.jsp?t...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_Mansions
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Coordinates:   40°51'41"N   73°30'43"W

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  • Property was sold 2008, in private hands. What is left of an 865-acre parcel pieced together by Mortimer Schiff 100 years ago, may not remain whole for very long. Its owner for the last 20 years put it up for sale earlier this month for $43 million. The current 17,900-square-foot mansion was built in 1948 by John Schiff, on part of the footprint of an earlier Tudor-style house, which was three times the size of the current building, built in 1906 by Mortimer Schiff, his father. The indoor tennis court in a Tudor-style building, the stable and some other outbuildings are original structures dating to 1928. * New York Times, by VALERIE COTSALAS Published: January 22, 2006
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