Gold Coast Mansions
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Brookholt Mansion |
A Belmont Mansion |
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| Name | Brookholt Mansion |
| Location | East Meadow, LI, NY, US |
| Built | 1897 |
| Style | Colonial Revival |
| Architect | Richard Howland Hunt, of Hunt of Hunt (Sons of Richard Morris Hunt) |
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| Built For | Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont (son of August Belmont) & Ava Vanderbilt Belmont |
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| Sold To | 1920's sold to Alexander Smith Cochran, then to Coldstream Golf Club |
| Current Use | Buildings destroyed by fire in 1934 |
| Notes: | The house never became a country club, and instead was rented to a Prohibition-era still. Raided by Federal Agents, the bedrooms were full of barrels and distillery tanks were in the ballroom. The home filled with alcohol- ignited in flames. |
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| Map | Merrick Avenue and Front Street in Uniondale in West Hempstead - No longer an area of rural beauty it is a densley populated area near the local courts and the site of a supermarket. |
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