"Veraton" III (Matinecock, New York)

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

Estate residence designed c. 1914 in the Georgian Revival style by Guy Lowell for Paul Drennan Cravath {attorney/diplomat}. Cravath was a partner of the Cravath, Swain & Moore law firm and was a representative of the United States Treasury at Inter-Allied War Conference at Paris in 1917 under the Wilson administration. Olmsted designed the aleé of trees and formal gardens; Guy Lowell did additional landscaping.

It was subsequently owned by Gordon Sohn Rentschler {industrialist, financier, capitalist}. Rentschler served as president of Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co. and director of Niles-Bemet-Pond Co., General Machinery Corp., General Sugar Corp., Cuban Dominican Sugar Corp., Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Corning Glass Works, National Cash Register Co., Home Insurance Co., Federal Insurance Co., Union Pacific Railroad, Edison Co. of New York.

"Veraton" III was one of four homes built by Cravath "("Veraton" I, II, III, and nearby "Still House"). The original u-shaped garage and stable outbuildings survive. However, the main residence has been extensively altered since.

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