Sands Point Preserve (Sands Point, New York)

USA / New York / Port Washington North / Sands Point, New York
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Howard Gould, son of financier and railroad developer Jay Gould, purchased undeveloped land in Sands Point in 1900-01 to build a new home for his wife, Katherine Clemmons. Castlegould, and then Hempstead House were built. After Howard and Katherine separated in 1909, he continued to finish the estate, using Hunt & Hunt as designers. Howard moved to Europe in 1917 and sold the estate to industrialist Daniel Guggenheim, son of Meyer Guggenheim {mining, smelting}. The estate, which had cost Gould over $1 million, sold for only $600,000, including the furnishings.

Daniel Guggenheim gave 90 acres of the estate to his son Harry F. as a wedding gift, and he built his home, Falaise, c.1923 in the style of a Normandy manor house, on the easternmost end of the estate on the Sound. Daniel Guggeinheim passed in 1930. In 1942, his wife Florence donated 162 acres including the two stone castles to The Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, as she was now living at Mille Fleurs. The instute leased, then sold the property to the United States Navy. The navy used the property for the design and testing of electronic systems. In 1967 the Navy moved their operations and the property was declared government surplus. In 1971, Nassau County acquired 127 acres for public recreational use. In 1971, Harry F. Guggenheim died and in accordance with his will, most of his 90 acre estate was deeded to Nassau County as well for use as a museum preserve site.

www.sandspointpreserve.org/
archive.org/details/discoveringsands0000kent/page/169/m...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_Point,_New_York
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Coordinates:   40°51'35"N   73°41'39"W

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  • It is not a New York State park but a Nassau County Park and Preserve.
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