" May your Summer be full of Yachts, Mansions & Cocktails "

The above Mansion was a true to life reality. It was the Bar Harbor, Maine summer estate of the Edward T. Stotesbury's. Unfortunately also gone like Whitemarsh Hall and their Palm Beach Home, El Mirasol.

Pembroke Entrance Garden

Click HERE for an aerial view of Pembroke, circa 1956.

Click HERE for Pembroke gates.

Long Island Gold Coast Estates from the Air I

Spring Hill, Old Westbury


Morgan's Island, Glen Cove

Pembroke, Glen Cove

Houses of the Hamptons Lecture at Connequot Public Library, May 20,2010

Houses of the Hamptons, 1880-1930

Thursday
05/20
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

The epitome of conspicuous consumption, the great phenomenon we now know as “The Hamptons” began as a group of Puritan villages along Long Island’s south shore. Developed originally as a farming community, it was discovered by artists and the fashionably rich at the end of the 19th century. At this slideshow/lecture,architect, writer and historian Gary Lawrance, Co-Author of " Houses of the Hamptons, 1880-1930 ", explores the architectural variety and achievement as well as the grace and beauty of more than 30 houses of the Hamptons designed by America’s leading architects of the time.

For more information go to http://connetquot.lib.ny.us/

A Letter from Eva Stotesbury

I have never been able to find an expression in words for the majestic simplicity and beauty of the new house, which is so satisfying, so thrilling in its loveliness that it sometimes brings tears my eyes when I see it in the moonlight.

This was from a letter which Eva Stotesbury wrote to her Architect, Horace Trumbauer upon moving into the magnificent 140 room mansion called " Whitemarsh Hall". Tears of sadness would now come to her eyes if she saw that very little today remains of her home, demolished in the 1980's after being ravaged by vandals and set on fire.

Gold Coast Gates II

Gold Coast Gates