"The Pebbles" (Oyster Bay Cove, New York)

USA / New York / East Norwich / Oyster Bay Cove, New York / Grace Lane, 11
 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, Norman (architecture)
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Residence designed by Chester M. Patterson c. 1930 in the Norman style and built by E.W. Howell & Co. for Wyllis Rossiter Betts, Jr. {financier}. Betts was a member of the Harris Upham & Co. investment banking firm (now Salomon/Morgan Stanley Smith Barney). Betts was also a member of the Natural History Museum expedition to the South Sea Islands to collect coral and marine specimens. Betts was married Constance McCann whose parents resided at "Sunken Orchard" in Oyster Bay Cove and was the granddaughter of F.W. Woolworth. Her sister Helena Woolworth McCann married Winston Churchill Guest and resided at "Duck Puddle Farm" in Oyster Bay Cove and "Templeton" I in Brookville.

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Coordinates:   40°51'2"N   73°31'7"W
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