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"Planting Fields" (Upper Brookville, New York)

USA / New York / East Norwich / Upper Brookville, New York
 residence, Tudor (architecture), LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, movie / film / TV location, historic remains
"Planting Fields" was designed by Walker & Gillette c. 1919 in the Jacobean Revival style on 427 acres for William Robertson Coe {financier, capitalist}. Coe served as president of the Johnson & Higgins marine insurance brokerage firm, chairman of Virginian Railway Co., and director of Wyoming Land Co. His wife Mary 'Mai' Huttleston (née Rogers) Coe, was the youngest daughter of millionaire industrialist Henry H. Rogers who had been a principal of Standard Oil. It replaced a former house by Grosvenor Atterbury that had burned down prior to their occupation. The Coe family only occupied "Planting Fields" for roughly six weeks out of the year, choosing to spend most of their time in New York City, Montana, or South Carolina where they also had houses.

The main residence was built on the foundation of the former James Byrne home which has been destroyed by fire in 1918. The estate included sixty-five-room main residence, greenhouses, gardens, woodland paths, and outstanding plant collections with an herbarium of over 10,000 pressed specimens. Its grounds were designed by Guy Lowell, A. R. Sargent, the Olmsted Brothers, and others. In 1914, Guy Lowell was commissioned to design the superintendent's house, remodel the garden house, and enlarge the greenhouse. Walker & Gillette also designed several of the outbuildings. The Coes were very interested in birds so depictions of animals are seen throughout the house.

After a short stint of being used as a campus for Stony Brook University in the 1960's, the estate is now open to the public as the Planting Fields Arboretum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2010, murals created Robert Winthrop Chanler for Mai Coe's bedroom were recreated by Polly Wood-Holland from archival sources. They also repurchased and returned the original Everett Shinn-decorated panels which were selected by Elsie de Wolfe who was responsible for the room's interior design.

The interior and exterior were used as a filming location for S8E5 of "Royal Pains" for a meeting with Mrs. Jeffries. The great hall is featured prominently.

plantingfields.org/collection/
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archive.org/details/countrylife53gard/page/n290/mode/1u...
digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-83e7-a3d9-e0...
www.flickr.com/photos/olmsted_archives/albums/721576892...
sova.si.edu/details/AAG.GCA?s=0&n=10&t=C&q=...
archive.org/details/LandscapePlantingAndEngineering/pag...
archive.org/details/artsdecoration3435newy/page/n162/mo...
archive.org/details/artsdecoration1415newy/page/n183/mo...
www.aaa.si.edu/collections/jacques-seligmann--co-record...
www.aaa.si.edu/collections/jacques-seligmann--co-record...


www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoMMdy915QQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e5WUls5deg

youtu.be/xhl9NoMMZF4?t=3244
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planting_Fields_Arboretum_State_Historic_Park
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Coordinates:   40°51'53"N   73°33'26"W

Comments

  • 12pud12sce
    Google for their website. Planting Fields
  • bobeppy (guest)
    Coe Hall was the original temporary site of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1957 before moving to it's permanent home in Stony Brook L.I.
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