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Caumsett : the Marshall Field III Gold Coast estate / The Caumsett Foundation ; foreword by Marshall Field V.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caumsett Foundation (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.), author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dwellings--New York (State)--Lloyd Harbor--History--Pictorial works.
- Dwellings.
- Historic buildings--New York (State)--Lloyd Harbor--Pictorial works.
- Historic buildings.
- Lloyd Harbor (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works.
- Lloyd Harbor (N.Y.).
- Lloyd Harbor (N.Y.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Caumsett (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Caumsett (Lloyd Harbor, N.Y.).
- Field family--Homes and haunts--New York (State)--Lloyd Harbor--Pictorial works.
- Field family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Marshall Field III was 28 years of age and one of the richest people in the world when he came upon the idea of replicating the environment in which he had spent his youth. Raised and educated in England, Field sought the life of an English gentleman here in the United States. In 1921, Field purchased almost 2, 000 acres of waterfront property on Long Island's North Shore, which would become Caumsett. Forty years later, Field's third wife, Ruth, opened bids for the right to purchase Caumsett and all that it had become. The highest bid, in excess of $5 million, came from a builder who planned to subdivide the estate and construct 700 homes. A second bid, from Robert Moses, then parks commissioner of New York State, was more than $1 million less. Ruth reflected on her life and what her late husband would have wanted. She turned to trusted adviser and confidant Adlai Stevenson and stated that she wanted to accept the lower bid. Fourteen months later, Caumsett State Park was born.
- Contents:
- The Field family and events
- Planning an English states
- Ready for occupancy
- Buildings and landscapes
- Caumsett faces adversity
- Recreation and education
- Working the estate and dairy farm
- The death of Marshall Field III
- The founding and development of Caumsett State Park
- A new beginning.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439656372
- 1439656371
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