The Nameless Masons of the Gold Coast
The Vanderbilts and Kahns get the brass plaques. The brick and stone of Oheka Castle and Long Island’s Gold Coast estates were laid by immigrant workers whose names nobody recorded.
1 Daylilly Court, Middle Island, NY 11953 — A Victorian Colonial With Endless Potential (MLS# 976744)
Listing Link: https://portal.onehome.com/en-US/share/2097424Q77467# Opportunity is knocking in the Pine Ridge section of The Preserves—and this…
Time and Brick: The Sag Harbor Watchcase Factory
The Bulova Watchcase Factory in Sag Harbor operated for nearly a century. By 2014, it was 64 luxury condos. What happens when industrial memory meets Hamptons money?
The Gilded Age Opulence of Oheka Castle: Financier Otto Kahn’s Extravagant 1910s Huntington Estate, an Architectural Marvel That Came to Define the Grandeur of the Roaring Twenties
Long before the Hamptons became synonymous with East Coast wealth, before the word ‘estate’ conjured…
The Tower at the Edge of the World: Camp Hero’s Radar Monolith and the Myth It Made
Sixty miles east of where the island narrows and the Hamptons begin their slow surrender…
Bleeding at Eighteen Percent
In October 1981, the average US mortgage rate hit 18.63 percent. People still bought houses. They swallowed the rate, worked the second job, and signed the paper.
