A different twist from my "usual" work.
I had some old footage moldering away so I decided to make a new video from it. Its on some of the Long Island Gold Coast mansions and ruins with never before seen material that never made it to my first video: Wolfwood. It features Knollwood, Chelsea, Coe Hall, Rosemary Farm, Caumsett, and Coindre Hall. Enjoy it while it lasts because these places will sadly be gone one day...
Haunting and beautiful. Love it! Thanks!
kathie0823 2 years ago
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.
tedly1911 3 years ago
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.
tedly1911 3 years ago
Very enjoyable.
amgenv 4 years ago