The North Shore of Lengthy Island is called the Gold Coast because of its assortment of lavish mansions, which date again to the early 1900s. Many of those houses are thought to have impressed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s West Egg in “The Nice Gatsby.”
One such mansion is Hempstead Home, which is positioned in Sands Level Protect, a 216-acre park about 30 miles outdoors New York Metropolis.
The complete property was as soon as owned by Howard Gould, a financier. He offered the land to Daniel and Florence Guggenheim in 1917, in accordance with the protect’s historical past.
The Guggenheims lived in Hempstead Home collectively till 1930, when Daniel died. Florence then offered all the furnishings and moved to a smaller dwelling on the property.
Hempstead Home has had fairly a journey since then, in accordance with the Sands Level Protect: British refugee youngsters lived there throughout World Battle II, then the land was acquired by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, which in flip donated it to the US Navy. The primary in-flight simulator was even examined there.
By 1971, the land was within the possession of Nassau County, which turned the previous Guggenheim property right into a park, turned two of the mansions into museums, and opened the park as much as anybody prepared to purchase a ticket.
In July 2024, I paid $15 to park at Sands Level Protect after which one other $10 to take a guided tour of Hempstead Home.
This is what it was like contained in the 112-year-old mansion and what I realized about life there.
