Links to other Gilded Age stories by Mark Donovan

Philipsburg Manor: The estate where it all began
Nevis: Estate honors Founding Father Alexander Hamilton
Charlton Hall: Famed grain merchant David Dows' Irvington legacy
The Larches: From 'Miss Alpine's School' to stock icon's working estate
Richmond Hill: Home to titans of industry, medicine, education
Strawberry Hill: 38 rooms, a haunting and a history
* Murray Hill: Eccentric Wendel family's wealth linked to the Astors
Fernheath: Old home long gone, but residents' influence lives on
Beechlawn: Fletcher Harper's publishing empire rose to fame during the Civil War
* Irving Cliff: Among last Hudson estates to fall to the wrecking ball
* Clare Court: Home to a presidential assassin's uncle and a jazz icon
Stern Castle: Merchants' estate dominated Irvington's skyline
Redwood: Home to the Lord & Burnham family that kept the Gilded Age under glass
Glenarm: Once home to a Civil War general, then a physician/financier, now Memorial Park
Woodcliff: Home to a Morgan who doubled as an Irvington founding father
Millett Estate: Links to Boston's Red Sox and Braves as well as Martin Luther King Jr.
Buckhout-Jewell Farm: Founding property became home to Cosmopolitan magazine
Cunningham Castle & East Garden: Estates with deep artistic roots
Halsey's Castle: Its 1977 demise sounded a death knell for Irvington's historic estates
Villa Nuits: Irvington's Cottenets, Astors once called it home
Ardsley Casino: Playground of Gilded Age robber barons
Rosedale: Home to a pre-Civil War abolitionist icon
Armour-Stiner House: The only fully-domed octagonal house in the world
Blue Rock: Was it or was it not 'The House of Graft'?
Hillcrest: Dunham estate enjoyed 2nd life as libertarian think tank
Repose: Home to mayors, school, convalescent facility, business
Airdrie Cottage: Gingerbread icon legacy of famed designer
Nearwood: Owners carved a lasting niche in village history
Villa Lewaro: Home to African-American icon Madam C.J. Walker
Lindenholm: Its heart and soul survived into the 1990s
Ardsley: Innovation, fame, tragedy marked Irvington's largest estate
Gilded Age Labor: The workers who made the estates run
* Woodland Cottage: Home to eccentric banker, blueblood idealist, tobacco lawyer
* Granite Lodge: Home to a Forty-Niner and a yachtsman
Broadlawn: It became one with its Grey Gables neighbor
Sunnyslopes: From Presbyterian parsonage to private home
The Cedars: Gilded Age residence for a century thrives today
Carlsruh: Home to a Romanov princess and Irvington's 1st mayor
Malkasten: Studio and home of renowned artist Bierstadt falls to flames
Linden Court/Uplands/Tarrytown House: Tobacco money, entrepreneurs keep dream alive
Patriots Park: 4 acres, 3 heroes, 2 freed slaves, 1 spy and 1 traitor
Sunnyside: A living memorial to Washington Irving, father of American literature
Suncliff: A hotbed of radical speech and activism in 1914
* The Homestead: Worthingtons playedit key roles in 19th century life
* Belvedere: Home to the greatest collector of American western art
* Lyndhurst: Robber baron Jay Gould's palatial estate originally built by ex-NYC mayor
* Shadowbrook: Estate hosted greats in business, music and medicine
* Wolfert's Dell: Riverfront park-to-be once a country seat, private zoo and private eye's crib
* Ilda House: Home to the brewery owner who brought Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees
* Nathan Cobb: Trans-Atlantic shipping captain key to founding of Tarrytown's public schools
* Pinkstone: Estate had colonial Dutch, Revolutionary War roots, lasted into 1970s
* Eastview Farm: Grocery magnate parlays fortune into horse racing, charity fame
* Kykuit: Home to ultra rich Rockefeller clan remains focal point of community
* Rockwood Hall: America's 2nd largest home once proposed as site of fledgling United Nations
* Ericstan: One of Tarrytown's three great castles became the first to fall
* Hillcrest: The estate of Mark Twain and Capt. Wm. Casey is today's Tappan Hill Mansion
* Carrollcliffe: The last of Tarrytown's privately-owned castles is a hotel today
* Heatherdell Farm: Home to philanthropist Lewisohn, lover of music, art, literature
* Greystone: An original 'Millionaires Row' estate is home still to the mega rich
* Heaven: 'Forgotten' estate was home to Father Divine's Peace Mission for 46 years
Tiffany Park: Home to village's premier river park, national artistic icon


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