"West Neck Farm"

USA / New York / Halesite /
 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, French Renaissance (architecture)
Estate home designed c. 1910 in the French Chateau style by Clarence S. Luce for George McKesson Brown {capitalist}. McKesson Brown served as a real estate developer and was president of the Taxpayers Association of Huntington in 1932. Popular in the United States in the early twentieth century, the French Chateau style is based on a mix of late French Gothic and Renaissance Revival style design elements as exemplified in the chateaux of the Loire Valley in France. An excellent example of the style, the hipped-roof home features tall circular towers with conical roofs, elongated decorative brick chimneys, and steeply pointed masonry gables. Other outstanding Chateau style details include brackets with foliated finials, scrollwork, and elaborate wood balustrades. The largely intact Brown estate includes the main dwelling, the Chateau style boathouse, small garage, and surrounding landscaped property. The estate was built at a cost of $750,000.

As a result of financial losses due to the Great Depression, Brown moved into the superintendent's house outbuilding in 1938 and sold the main home and 33 acres to the Roman Catholic teaching order. The Brothers of the Sacred Heart established a boy's school on the estate which the renamed "Coindre Hall". The home has been owned by Suffolk Country since 1988 and was used as the Gold Coast Museum of Long Island. It is now used as an event space and offices for nonprofits. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the boathouse, on the other hand, is in a state of disrepair.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coindre_Hall
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Coordinates:   40°53'35"N   73°26'14"W

Comments

  • Originally named West Neck Farms. Style of architecture is French Chateau. Built for George Mckesson Brown. Google Coindre Hall for more info.
  • Open to the public as the Gold Coast Museum of Long Island.
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiU9igUJtZg
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