The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast write by Monica Randall. This book was released on 2003. The Mansions of Long Island's Gold Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photographs detailing architectural features and interior design, accompanied by a text capturing early twentieth-century ways of life explore the lavish houses built by the Vanderbilts, Morgans, and others on Long Island's North Shore, in an expanded, beautifully illustrated celebration of the desi
Long Island's Gold Coast
Long Island's Gold Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Long Island's Gold Coast write by Paul J. Mateyunas. This book was released on 2012. Long Island's Gold Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the spotlight with the publication of The Great Gatsby, the North Shore's Gold Coast boasted perhaps the greatest concentration of wealth in the country during the first half of the 20th century. In its heyday, over 1,200 grand homes lined the shoreline from Eaton's Neck to Great Neck and as far south as Old Westbury. With inspiration from around the globe, as well as the development of many new American styles, an architectural renaissance occurred, bringing together the greatest artisans, architects, landscape architects, and designers to create an exclusive enclave that flourished until World War II. Captains of industry, founding families, and even royalty called Long Island home. Everyone from Morgan, Woolworth, Vanderbilt, Hearst, Field, and Phipps to the Duke of Windsor resided here. Lavish parties celebrated weddings, Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, and other events. Today, approximately one-third of these houses still survive in various states, providing a glimpse of what was the Gold Coast.
Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families
Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families write by Raymond E. Spinzia. This book was released on 2006. Long Island's Prominent North Shore Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long Island's Gold Coast, more than any other section of the country, has captured the imagination of America. This, in part, is attributable to F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." The Spinzias' two-volume comprehensive analysis of the North Shore families documents over 1,500 estate owners in a modified "Who's Who" format. Included are 578 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. Cross-referenced in the second-section appendices are 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, rehabilitive 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.
North Shore Long Island
North Shore Long Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North Shore Long Island write by Paul J. Mateyunas. This book was released on 2007. North Shore Long Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unsurpassed in the natural beauty of its rolling landscape and splendid harbours, the scope and
Long Island
Long Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Long Island write by Christopher M. Collora. This book was released on 2013-04-01. Long Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In contrast to and predating Long Island's famous Gold Coast (the North Shore), communities along the Great South Bay were home to hundreds of less publicized, yet equally impressive, mansions and historic houses These homes were once owned by prominent captains of industry, popular entertainment figures, and movers and shakers of the day, such as the Bourne, Cutting, Gardiner, Gulden, Gustivino, Guggenheim, Hollins, and Vanderbilt families. Long Island: Historic Houses of the South Shore explores the South Shore's famous resident personalities, including Schuyler Parsons, Fred Astaire, Anita Stewart, and Robert Pinkerton. The lifestyle of the South Shore is also portrayed, including activities like hunting and fishing as well as the famous beaches that served as tourist attractions.
