"Mariemont" (Brookville, New York)

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, Georgian (architecture), movie / film / TV location

"Mariemont" was built in 1927 for Henry Wheeler Lowe {financier}. Lowe served as director of the Johnson & Higgins insurance brokerage firm. Architect John Russell Pope [Spring Hill, Camusett} designed the mansion in a composite of New England and Mid-Atlantic Federal forms. A cornerstone located on an upper section of the rear of the Lorber Hall declares that the house was built in 1927 after another house in the same location was destroyed by fire in 1926.

Financier William E. Hutton II (second cousin of E.F. Hutton of Wall Street brokerage fame) purchased the mansion and its 26 acres in 1940. The Hutton’s named the estate "Mariemont". Edward F. Hutton purchased the house directly east of "Mariemont" (currently the LIU Post Fine Arts Center) after his 1936 divorce from second wife, cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. Later owned by William and Joan Chapin Hutton.

Long Island University purchased "Mariemont" from the Huttons in 1965 for $400,000. The house was renamed Hutton House by the University and became the home of the Hutton House Lectures series and the School of Professional Accountancy. Thanks to the generosity of Howard M. Lorber, CEO of Nathan’s Famous, Inc. and Chairman- Hallman & Lorber Associates, Inc., the building was restored to its original magnificence during a three-year period from 1997-2000.

Both the interior and exterior rear were used as a filming location for S5E12 of "Royal Pains" when Evan gets sworn in at the fictional site of the Southampton Village Hall.

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