At the time of it’s demolition this 87-room Elizabethan-Tudor revival mansion was the 7th largest home in the United States at a whopping 72,000 square feet. It’s demolition makes me sick, if you look up the address on Google Earth it doesn’t even seem like they built anything in it’s place.
mdsnbluessays
Wow it’s sad to see the plot surrounded by tract homes.
UsuallyInappropriatesays
Demolished?! ?
boohoopooryousays
What a shame
godhatesnormiessays
Why do Americans hate sturdy old historical architecture so much, what a shame.
randleasays
People love to scream and cry about these beautiful and historic homes when they’re torn down, but I don’t see any of them willing to cover the cost to maintain and run a 72,000 sq ft, 100 year old home. It’s a shame from a historic preservation standpoint, but get real.
TheHykossays
So a developer paid $36m for it, tore down the house, and is now trying to sell it for $110m six years later.
>The location that once housed the now demolished St. Ignatius Retreat, a 93-year-old Catholic sanctuary in North Hills, is on sale for $110 million as a potential development site.
>The approximately 30-acre property was donated to the New York province of the Roman Catholic order of Jesuit priests in 1937 by Genevieve Brady.
>Brady’s family home — a 72,000-square-foot Tudor Elizabethan mansion known as Inisfada (Gaelic for "long island") — was then used by the Jesuits, first as a seminary and later, for a half-century, as a retreat house.
>The retreat house was torn down in late 2013 after the Manhasset Bay Group Inc. bought the property from the Jesuits for $36.5 million.
>If developed by home builders, the site at 251 Searingtown Rd. in Manhasset could support 46 single-family residences, according to an online listing by Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, which is handling the sale.
Razorshroudsays
RIP this is one of the most beautiful examples in this sub 🙁
IhaveCripplingAngst says
At the time of it’s demolition this 87-room Elizabethan-Tudor revival mansion was the 7th largest home in the United States at a whopping 72,000 square feet. It’s demolition makes me sick, if you look up the address on Google Earth it doesn’t even seem like they built anything in it’s place.
mdsnblues says
Wow it’s sad to see the plot surrounded by tract homes.
UsuallyInappropriate says
Demolished?! ?
boohoopooryou says
What a shame
godhatesnormies says
Why do Americans hate sturdy old historical architecture so much, what a shame.
randlea says
People love to scream and cry about these beautiful and historic homes when they’re torn down, but I don’t see any of them willing to cover the cost to maintain and run a 72,000 sq ft, 100 year old home. It’s a shame from a historic preservation standpoint, but get real.
TheHykos says
So a developer paid $36m for it, tore down the house, and is now trying to sell it for $110m six years later.
https://www.newsday.com/business/st-ignatius-retreat-inisfada-north-hills-1.29431030
>The location that once housed the now demolished St. Ignatius Retreat, a 93-year-old Catholic sanctuary in North Hills, is on sale for $110 million as a potential development site.
>The approximately 30-acre property was donated to the New York province of the Roman Catholic order of Jesuit priests in 1937 by Genevieve Brady.
>Brady’s family home — a 72,000-square-foot Tudor Elizabethan mansion known as Inisfada (Gaelic for "long island") — was then used by the Jesuits, first as a seminary and later, for a half-century, as a retreat house.
>The retreat house was torn down in late 2013 after the Manhasset Bay Group Inc. bought the property from the Jesuits for $36.5 million.
>If developed by home builders, the site at 251 Searingtown Rd. in Manhasset could support 46 single-family residences, according to an online listing by Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, which is handling the sale.
Razorshroud says
RIP this is one of the most beautiful examples in this sub 🙁
Anacoenosis says
It’s just an opportunity for a Second Inisfada!