Gold Coast Mansions

Every Gold Coast Mansion on the site, in one list. Narrow it by status, by place, or by a name. Open to the public means a visitor can go inside or onto the grounds on a schedule; the other standing houses are schools, churches, offices or private homes and cannot be visited.

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Beacon Towers

Remains Sands Point, 1917 to 1918

Beacon Towers was a white stucco castle on the shore at Sands Point, built in 1917 and 1918 for Alva Belmont, the.
Brecknock Hall

Institutional Greenport, 1851 to 1857

Brecknock Hall is a stone Italianate house that David Gelston Floyd, a Greenport shipping and whaling businessman and grandson of Declaration signer.
Brookholt

Gone East Meadow, 1897

Brookholt was the East Meadow country house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and his wife Alva, the former Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt..
Castle Gould

Open Sands Point, 1902 to 1904

Castle Gould is the granite stable and carriage complex that Howard Gould, a son of the financier Jay Gould, built at Sands.
Caumsett

Open Lloyd Harbor (Lloyd Neck), 1922 to 1925

Caumsett is the country estate that Marshall Field III, grandson of the Chicago department store founder, created on Lloyd Neck after buying.
Cedarmere

Open Roslyn Harbor, 1787 to 1903

Cedarmere was the country home of the poet and newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant from 1843 until his death in 1878. The.
Chelsea

Institutional Muttontown, 1923 to 1925

Chelsea is the Muttontown estate of Benjamin Moore and Alexandra Emery Moore, designed by William Adams Delano of Delano & Aldrich and.
Clayton

Open Roslyn Harbor, 1900

Clayton is the Roslyn Harbor estate that now houses the Nassau County Museum of Art. The publisher Lloyd Stephens Bryce built the.
Coe Hall

Open Upper Brookville, 1919 to 1920

Coe Hall is the Tudor Revival main house at Planting Fields, the Upper Brookville estate of William Robertson Coe and Mai Rogers.
Coindre Hall

Open Huntington, 1910 to 1912

Coindre Hall is the French chateau-style house that George McKesson Brown built on Huntington Harbor between about 1910 and 1912. The National.
Eagle’s Nest

Open Centerport, 1910 to 1936

Eagle's Nest is the Centerport estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, a great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. It began as a small cottage,.
Falaise

Open Sands Point, 1923

Falaise is the house Harry F. Guggenheim built about 1923 on the bluffs of Sands Point, on land his father, Daniel Guggenheim,.
Farnsworth

Remains Matinecock

Farnsworth was the Long Island country house of C. K. G. Billings, a Chicago industrialist and horseman, in the area now usually.
Ferguson’s Castle

Remains Huntington Bay

Ferguson's Castle, first called The Monastery, was the hillside home of Juliana Armour Ferguson above Huntington Harbor in what is now the.
Harbor Hill

Remains East Hills (historically Roslyn), 1900 to 1902

Harbor Hill was the Roslyn estate of Clarence H. Mackay, heir to a Comstock silver fortune and a leader in the telegraph.
Hempstead House

Open Sands Point, 1912

Hempstead House is a three-story Tudor Revival mansion at Sands Point, completed in 1912 for Howard Gould, a son of Jay Gould,.
Hillandale (Oakley Court)

Private Mill Neck, 1936 to 1937

The old goldcoastmansions.com site listed Hillandale, later called Oakley Court, as a 1936 Tudor house at Mill Neck by the architect Henry.
Hillwood

Institutional Brookville

Hillwood is the Tudor Revival country house in Brookville that Marjorie Merriweather Post shared with her second husband, the financier E.F. Hutton..
Idle Hour

Institutional Oakdale, 1899 to 1901

Idle Hour is the brick and stone mansion that William Kissam Vanderbilt built in Oakdale after fire destroyed his first house on.
Inisfada

Gone North Hills, 1916 to 1920

Inisfada was a Tudor Revival mansion in North Hills, built from 1916 to 1920 for Nicholas and Genevieve Brady to designs by.
Killenworth

Institutional Glen Cove, 1913

Killenworth is a Tudor Revival country house in Glen Cove built for George Dupont Pratt, a son of the oil refiner Charles.
Knollwood

Remains Muttontown, 1906 to 1920

Knollwood was a 60-room granite country house in Muttontown built for the New York stockbroker Charles I. Hudson. The firm of Hiss.
La Selva

Private Upper Brookville, 1915

La Selva is an Italian Renaissance villa in Upper Brookville designed by Hunt and Hunt, the firm of Richard Howland Hunt and.
Land’s End

Gone Sands Point

Lands End was a Colonial Revival house at the northern tip of Sands Point, built about 1900 to 1902 and best known.
Laurelton Hall

Remains Laurel Hollow, 1902 to 1905

Laurelton Hall was the country estate of the artist Louis Comfort Tiffany above Cold Spring Harbor, in what is now the Village.
Matinecock Point

Remains East Island, 1909 to 1913

Matinecock Point was the country house of J. P. Morgan Jr. on East Island in Glen Cove. Christopher Grant La Farge designed.
Meudon

Remains Lattingtown, 1900

Meudon was the Lattingtown estate of the New York lawyer William Dameron Guthrie. C. P. H. Gilbert designed the 80-room Renaissance Revival.
Mill Neck Manor

Institutional Mill Neck, 1923

Mill Neck Manor is a Tudor Revival mansion built for Robert Leftwich Dodge and Lillian Sefton Dodge, president of the cosmetics company.
Montauk Manor

Open Montauk, 1926 to 1927

Montauk Manor is a large English Tudor resort hotel on Signal Hill in Montauk, opened in 1927 as the centerpiece of Carl.
Nassau Hall

Institutional Muttontown, 1903 to 1904

Nassau Hall is a country house in Muttontown that the architects Delano and Aldrich designed for a member of the Winthrop family.
Oheka Castle

Open Cold Spring Hills, 1914 to 1917

Oheka is the country house that the banker Otto Hermann Kahn built in the Cold Spring Hills section of the Town of.
Old Westbury Gardens

Open Old Westbury, 1906 to 1907

Westbury House is the country house that John S. Phipps and his wife, Margarita Grace Phipps, built in Old Westbury in 1906.
Ormston House

Institutional Lattingtown, 1916

Ormston is a Tudor Revival country house in Lattingtown, designed in 1916 by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue for the utilities executive John E..
Pembroke

Gone Glen Cove, 1914 to 1918

Pembroke was the Glen Cove estate of Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar, a Dutch-born mining financier. C. P. H. Gilbert designed the.
Poplar Hill

Institutional Glen Cove, 1917 to 1924

Poplar Hill is the Glen Cove country house of Frederic B. Pratt, a son of the oil refiner Charles Pratt and a.
Rosemary Farm

Remains Lloyd Harbor (West Neck)

Rosemary Farm was the West Neck estate of the banker Roland Ray Conklin and his wife, Mary Macfadden Conklin, in what is.
Sagamore Hill

Open Cove Neck, 1884 to 1885

Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt from 1885 until his death in 1919. The New York firm of Lamb and.
Salutation

Private West Island, 1928 to 1929

Salutation is a Neo-Georgian mansion on West Island in Glen Cove, built for the banker Junius Spencer Morgan III, a grandson of.
Templeton (White Eagle)

Institutional Brookville (on the Old Westbury campus of New York Institute of Technology), 1916 to 1918

Templeton, first called White Eagle, is a Georgian Revival mansion designed by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings for Alfred I. du.
The Braes

Institutional Glen Cove, 1912 to 1914

The Braes is a Jacobean-style mansion in Glen Cove built from 1912 for Herbert Lee Pratt, a son of Standard Oil founder.
The Chimneys

Institutional Sands Point, 1929

The Chimneys is a Tudor-style mansion in Sands Point completed about 1929 for Bettie Fleischmann Holmes, the widow of the Cincinnati physician.
The Hill (Donnell house)

Private Eatons Neck, 1902 to 1903

The Hill is a 33-room Tudor Revival house on Eatons Neck, designed by the New York architect Harry E. Donnell for himself.
The Manor (Glen Cove Mansion)

Open Glen Cove, 1910

The Manor is a brick Georgian Revival house in Glen Cove, completed in 1910 for John Teele Pratt, a son of oil.
The Playhouse (Woodward estate)

Institutional Oyster Bay Cove, 1927

The Playhouse was a 1927 recreation building, with an indoor tennis court and a music room, that the architect James W. O'Connor.
The Whitney estate

Gone Old Westbury, 1900 to 1902

William Collins Whitney, a financier and former Secretary of the Navy, assembled a 530-acre estate at Old Westbury, in the area then.
Villa Maria

Private Water Mill

Villa Maria is a large waterfront house on Mecox Bay in Water Mill, in the Hamptons on the South Fork of Long.
Welwyn

Open Glen Cove

Welwyn is the Georgian Revival country house of Harold Irving Pratt, a son of oil pioneer Charles Pratt, and his wife, Harriet,.
Westbrook (Bayard Cutting Arboretum)

Open Great River, 1886

Westbrook is the summer house that the New York architect Charles Haight designed in 1886 for William Bayard Cutting, a railroad and.
Wiley Hall (Bendel and Chrysler estate)

Open Kings Point, 1916

Wiley Hall is the main administration building of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. Henry Otis Chapman designed it as.
Wilzig Castle

Private Water Mill, 1996

Wilzig Castle, often called Sir Ivan's Castle, is a modern house built in the form of a medieval castle on a wooded.
Winfield Hall

Private Glen Cove, 1916

Winfield Hall is a marble-clad Italian Renaissance mansion in Glen Cove designed by C. P. H. Gilbert for Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder.