Nicholas S. Jonas Residence (Lake Success, New York)

USA / New York / University Gardens / Lake Success, New York
 residence, Tudor (architecture), LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, historical layer / disappeared object
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Estate home designed c. 1924 in the Tudor Revival style by on 29 acres of land Mann & MacNeille for Nicholas Solomon Jonas {financier}. Jonas served as was a founder of Manufacturers Trust Co., president of Citizens Trust Co., and vice president of Sumner Savings Bank. A champion of Jewish causes, he also served on the boards of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn and Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, and was a member of the New York City Board of Education. He commissioned formal landscaping by John Jacob Levison.

After being subsequently owned by George Devendorf, the estate was demolished in 1960.

archive.org/details/countrylife52gard/page/n49/mode/1up
usmodernist.org/AMAR/AMAR-1936-08.pdf
www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/56064/Plate+003++North+...
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Coordinates:   40°46'40"N   73°42'45"W
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