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Location of "Nevis" formerly "Boscobel" - Underhill / Shonnard / Bowdoin Estate (Oyster Bay Cove, New York)

USA / New York / Oyster Bay / Oyster Bay Cove, New York
 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, historical layer / disappeared object

Francis T. Underhill after coming of age bought the land with extensive frontage on East Main Street. He drained a large salt marsh and turned it into lawns and built his house, lodge and coach house on the site. A superb horsemen, he brought horses from his western ranch and introduced Polo to Oyster Bay. When he moved to California the property was purchased by Camille Weidenfeld, after by Horatio Seymour Shonnard, and later by George T. Bowdoin.

Shonnard, a descendant of New York Governor Horatio Seymour, hired the architect Donn Barber who designed the Tudor style stables, boathouse, outbuildings and extensive water gardens. Shonnard had Barber rebuild the house from a Queen Anne to a Colonial Revival design and called the house "Boscobel".

George Temple Bowdoin's grandfather, George Sullivan Bowdoin, and father, Temple Bowdoin, were partners in J.P. Morgan's original Firm. A descendant of Alexander Hamilton, Governor John Winthrop and James Bowdoin, George T. Bowdoin was an avid yachtsman and a member of the Americas Cup syndicate for the winning yacht Constellation in 1964. George Bowdoin was the first Mayor of the Town of Oyster Bay Cove. Bowdoin renamed the home "Nevis". Though no longer extant (the estate was subdivided into several smaller lots in the 1960's) portions of the stables and other outbuildings remain as does a portion of the original garden.

www.oldlongisland.com/search?q=boscobel
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Coordinates:   40°52'20"N   73°31'12"W
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