"Westbrook"

USA / New York / Great River /
 residence, Tudor (architecture), LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place, historic landmark
Estate of William Bayard Cutting, a member of New York's merchant aristocracy, was an attorney, financier, real estate developer, sugar beet refiner and philanthropist. He was trained at Columbia College, as a lawyer, in which capacity he assisted his grandfather, Robert Bayard, in the management of his railroad company. He was a builder of railroads, operated the ferries of New York City, and developed part of the south Brooklyn waterfront, Red Hook.

"Westbrook", the large rambling house of many gables and tall chimneys c.1886, in the Tudor style designed by Charles C. Haight with interiors by Tiffany Studios, and landscaping by Olmstead, is open to the public. Once over one thousand acres, one of the last remaining estates on the "South Shore Gold Coast" of Long Island. The gate house remains at the corner of Montauk Highway and Great River Road. In 1895 Mr. Cutting and his brother laid out a golf course at Westbrook, known to be the first private golf course in the United States.

When a fire in 1895 burned down many of the farm buildings on the estate, Stanford White was commissioned to draw the plans for a modern dairy, known as Westbrook Farms, with many innovative features.

dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/mckim/dscaspace_ref1...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Cutting_Arboretum_State_Park
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Coordinates:   40°44'8"N   73°9'44"W

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  • Montauk Highway used to have parkway streetlights between the Heckscher Parkway interchange and here.
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