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  • Haunting and beautiful. Love it! Thanks!

  • There were once hundreds of these great homes and estates dotting the North Shore of Long Island's "Gold Coast." The sizes of some were almost unimaginable. Almost none are left now, having fallen victim to the introduction of the Income Tax, to property taxes, to the Great Depression of the 1930s, and to the lack of the armies of servants required to run them following World War II.

  • Succeeding generations could no longer afford to keep them running. And one by one, they were torn down or merely abandoned to vandals and the elements. Most became subdivisions, their magnificent topography obliterated by the housing boom of the 1950s and '60s. Here and there a water tower, a gate, or a granite stairway to nowhere remains, but most people don't know what they were or what they were from. It was a lifestyle we'll not see again in such profusion.

  • Very enjoyable.

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