"Cloverly Manor" (Sands Point, New York)

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast

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"Park Hill" was built c. 1903 in the Tudor style on 35 acres for W. Butler Duncan {financier, capitalist, industrialist}. Duncan served as the administrator of the Havemeyer family estate, president of St. Andrew's Realty Corp., and was president of Seaboard Sand & Gravel Corp., Fellows Medical Manufacturing Corp., and Brooklyn Elevator Milling Corp. The estate was replete with superintendent's houses, chauffeur's cottage, captain's house, barns, and garages. Duncan, a renowned yachtsmen, was a great nephew of William Butler Duncan.

The land of the former Duncan and Cochran estates was sold in 1922 to William Vincent Astor. Astor was the son of John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the Titanic and himself served as chairman of Newsweek. He commissioned a new home by Delano & Aldrich c.1922 (it is also mistakenly attributed to Cram, Ferguson & Goodhue) composed brick in the Tudor style with formal landscaping by Anette Hoyt Flanders. They also designed a large stable/garage to the west of house. Ironwork was fabricated by Samuel Yellin.

Astor sold the estate in 1933 to Allan J. McIntosh {financier}. McIntosh served as a partner of the Davis & McIntosh stock brokerage firm. It was later occupied by Nicholas Schenck after his home in Kings Point was acquired by the U.S. government by eminent domain in 1942. He largely kept the estate's interior intact but remodeled Astor's former dog kennel into a private theater which was visited by the likes of Winston Churchill, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and the like.

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