"Munnysunk" (Lattingtown, New York)

USA / New York / Matinecock / Lattingtown, New York
 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, Colonial Revival (architecture)
In 1911, Frank Bailey, Sr. bought a modest famhouse built in the 1820s and forty-three acres of land in Lattingtown from John Clark. Frank Bailey, a self-made millionaire, was the President of the Title Guarantee Trust Company and was known as the 'Builder of Brooklyn' because of his vast real estate dealings there. Bailey married Marie Louise Lambert, granddaughter of Edward A. Lambert, Mayor of Brooklyn in 1853-54. He also was the founder of the Museum of the City of New York.

Bailey was “determined,” he wrote in his autobiography, to “own the house rather than have the house own him.” The alterations by their architect H. Craig Severance of the firm Severance & Shumm were “not designed to give the place the air of a French chateau or an English castle, like so many other houses in the vicinity.”. Instead he concentrated on creating “a living growing museum, a museum of trees and shrubs and flowers.” He moved in to the 42-room house by 1912 and comissioned John Jacob Levison to design formal landscaping. The Baileys had a good sense of humor, and coined the name 'Munnysunk' for their home due to the high costs associated with owning it.

www.baileyarboretum.org
www.oldlongisland.com/search?q=munnysunk
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_Mansions
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Coordinates:   40°53'12"N   73°35'7"W

Comments

  • this place is outstanding
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