Hempstead House
A Gold Coast estate with two castle-like buildings.
Hempstead House is a large Tudor-style manor house completed in 1912 on Long Island's North Shore.[1][2] Howard Gould had the estate constructed, and in 1917 Daniel Guggenheim purchased it from the Goulds.[2][3]
Quick Facts
- Location
- 95 Middle Neck Rd, Port Washington, New York
- Built
- 1909
- Architect
- Allen, August et al.
- Architecture
- Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals
- Added
- September 29, 2006
- Area
- 216 acres / 0.874 km²
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Howard Gould purchased the land in 1900 and began construction, initially planning a replica of Kilkenny Castle.[3] That castle, called Castle Gould, was intended as the main house but the Goulds disliked it.[3] They built a second dwelling, completed in 1912, which became the main residence.[3][1] The Entry Foyer contained an oak organ whose pipes were decorative, with sound traveling through floor openings.[4]
The U.S. Navy held the property from 1946 to 1967, and Nassau County received the deed in 1971.[3] The limestone stables and servants' quarters kept the designation Castle Gould, while the primary residence received the name Hempstead House.[3] At the height of its operation, the 300-acre property required 17 indoor servants and 200 individuals working as farmers and groundskeepers.[5] The Institute of Aeronautical Sciences received the estate as a donation from the Guggenheims in 1942.[3][1]
What the cited sources add
That same source notes that Castle Gould was the Kilkenny Castle reproduction and served as the stables after Hempstead House became the main residence.[1] The source also reports that Hempstead House was closed for renovations at the time of the author's visit.[1]
References
- "Gould Castle, Hempstead House", Dupontcastle.com. facts only, no text reused. dupontcastle.com
- Wikipedia, "Hempstead House" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Virginia L. Bartos, "National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Gould--Guggenheim Estate", National Archives and Records Administration, March 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hempstead House" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Big Man; Big House", big-old-houses.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hempstead House" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Hempstead House", Sands Point Preserve (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hempstead House" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gould Castle, Hempstead House", Dupontcastle.com; "The New York Theatre Organ Society", Nytos.org (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Hempstead House (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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