Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes. Volume II: 2

Long Islands Gold Coast more than any other section of the country has captured the imagination of America. This in part is attributable to F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby.This revised and updated two-volume analysis of the North Shore families documents over 1700 estate owners in a modified Whos Who format. Included are 1394 photographs of the estates biographical data on the estate owners and their families locations of estates using current street references and village designations estate names acreage architects architectural styles dates of construction landscape architects subsequent owners location of archival photographs of the estates and information as to whether mansions are still extant and if not the dates of demolition. Included are family cross-references to the other four volumes in the series.The appendices list estate names village locations of estates as well as architectural and landscape commissions. The civic activity and occupation appendices document the contribution of Long Islanders including statesmen intelligence agents financiers writers and inventors. Maiden names rehabilitative secondary uses of estates including golf courses which were formerly private estates motion pictures filmed at estate sites a general bibliography of the Gilded Age and a bibliography specific to individual estate owners with the location of personal papers have also been included.