Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Woolworth Estate, Aerial View |
Date |
1978 |
Object ID |
2015.009.MAN 17 |
Collection |
Mansions of Glen Cove Photo Collection |
Description |
Five-and-dime tycoon F.W. Woolworth had the palatial 56-room Winfield Hall built in1916 in North Country Colony. The C.P.H. Gilbert Beaux-Arts mansion, which replaced an earlier house destroyed by fire, has a magnificent marble staircase and an Aeolian pipe organ. Woolworth died in his home in 1919 of an abscessed tooth only four years after the house was finished. (Caption courtesy of Joan Harrison) |
Photographer |
Monica Randall |
Source |
Monica Randall Collection |
Search Terms |
Estates and Mansions Gold Coast Mansions Winfield Hall Woolworth |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Copyright |
This material may be protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S. Code). For permission to publish or display images please contact the Glen Cove Public Library Robert R. Coles Long Island History Room. |