Oheka Castle: Long Island Architect

A breathtakingly beautiful historic mansion located on the famed Gold Coast of Long Island between New York City and The Hamptons. At Oheka Castle guests will discover a World of charming luxury and European ambiance. Oheka is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a member of Historic Hotels of America and boasts 32 guestrooms and suites on the upper floors of the estate. The estate offers formal gardens, an 18-hole golf course, tennis, fine dining, and historic mansion tours.

Sands Point Preserve: Long Island Architect

Sand's Point Preserve is home to three spectacular mansions: Falaise; Hempstead House; and CastleGould.
Falaise is a Normandy style home filled with antiques and open to the public for tours. It's here that Charles Lindbergh wrote his famous book "WE," while staying with the Guggenheim family at Falaise, and where he came for respite following the tragic kidnapping of his child.
Hempstead House was designed by Hunt & Hunt in the style of an English castle.
CastleGould was built to be a replica of Kilkenny Castle, but it was later used as stables and servant quarters.
Walk the grounds that overlook the Long Island Sound and step back in time to a period of Gold Coast splendor.

Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County: Long Island Architect

Located on the grounds of Nassau County’s Welwyn Preserve, the Holocaust Memorial & Educational Center offers a 7,000 volume library, exhibits, and educational programs designed to further understand about and remembrance of the Holocaust. The center uses the lessons of Holocaust to promote respect compassion and understanding for all people through educational programs. The museum recieves over 45,000 visitors a year.

Nassau County Museum of Art: Long Island Architect

Ranked among the nation’s most important suburban art museums, Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located about 25 miles east of New York City on the former Frick Estate, a spectacular 145-acre property in Roslyn Harbor in the heart of Long Island’s fabled Gold Coast. The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold and Joan Saltzman, is a three-story Georgian mansion that exemplifies Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century.

In addition to the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building, Nassau County Museum of Art includes the Art Space for Children, the Sculpture Park, Formal Garden of historic importance, the Pinetum, an architecturally-significant restored trellis, rare specimen trees, marked walking trails, and the Art School where an extensive array of beginning to advanced art classes are held for adults and children.

Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium: Long Island Architect

The elegant Vanderbilt Museum's historic mansion is the former home of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, great grandson of Commodore Cornelius. The 43 acre estate overlooks Northport Harbor and the Long Island Sound. Visitors take guided tours of the mansion or may wander through the museum's many exhibits on their own. The Vanderbilt museum also has a 238 seat state of the art planetarium which features 3 different shows on weekends and holidays. It is one of the largest and best-equipped in the United States. In addition to its domed theater where Sky shows recreate celestial events, there is also an Observatory with a professional-grade 16-inch Cassegrainian reflecting telescope through which visitors may scan the real sky on clear evenings, or, during the day, watch actual sunspots and solar prominences as transmitted live to a television monitor in the Planetarium lobby. The 60-foot Sky Theater houses a customized four ton Goto projection instrument which reproduces the heavenly bodies: sun, moon, planets, and stars as well as the imaginary coordinate lines traditionally used to map the heavens. It can simulate the heavens at any moment in time from the distant past to the future, as they appeared from any place on Earth. The projector can show more than 11,300 stars - about the same number of stars visible in the night sky under perfect atmospheric conditions. Open year round.

Old Westbury Gardens: Long Island Architect

Welcome to North America's most beautiful English-style country estate. Built for the family of philanthropist John S. Phipps in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 160 acres include a walled perennial garden, classical statuary, rolling fields, a charming thatched cottage with garden, over 100 species of trees, sweeping lawns, rose gardens, lakes, boxwood gardens, winding paths, and demonstration gardens. Westbury House, a magnificent Charles II mansion, virtually unchanged from the time of the Phipps' residence, is filled with priceless original furnishings and fine arts. Indoor and outdoor concerts, Family Fridays, House and Gardens tours, Plant Shops, Gift shop, Picnics, Cafe in the woods. Open 10am-5pm, Wednesday-Monday, mid-April through the end of October, special dates in November and February, and for festive Holiday Celebrations in December in beautifully decorated Westbury House

Gatsby's Gold Coast: Long Island Architect

Just a short ride from New York City on Long Island’s north shore lies a place of uninhibited wealth and opulence immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby. Many of the “Gold Coast” mansions that grace this scenic coastal area, so-called due to the huge concentration of fortunes here, are open for the public’s perusal and enjoyment.

Come to Long Island’s Gold Coast and take a step back in time to the 1920s when neighbors at the upper echelon of high society strove to out-do each other in terms of lavish, castle-like mansions and gardens of European caliber. Visit Old Westbury Gardens, the Vanderbilt Estate, or the Frick Estate at the Nassau County Museum of Art. Over a half-dozen estates, once owned by some of the most famous people from New York, have been converted to public use. Many offer art galleries and tours, and others open to allow visitors to stroll the grounds and spectacular gardens to get a feel for what life was like for the privileged few.

Others such as Oheka castle, once the home of Otto Hermann Kahn, and the Glen Cove Mansion, once a Pratt family estate, are open to the public for events and overnight accommodations.