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Old Westbury Gardens open to the public for tours since 1959. It has a magnificent example of the finest in period landscape design and architecture in America. Built in 1906 by the English designer George A. Crawley, Old Westbury Gardens is the former home of John S. Phipps and his wife, Margarita Grace Phipps. The Charles II-style mansion is nestled amid 160 acres of formal gardens, landscaped grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes.
The gardens are located at 71 Old Westbury Road in Old Westbury, New York.
Today at Old Westbury Gardens guests enjoy the house, the sculpted grounds, and the unusual events. From Scottish games and antique cars to dog days and year-round concerts. Old Westbury Gardens is a gift from a family, who loved their home and its pleasures, to the thousands of visitors who now enjoy its quiet beauty by day and fun, energetic concerts by evening.
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Another park that serve as a quiet oasis for rest and contemplation, also has function as educational, cultural, and horticultural activities. Garden park of Planting Fields’ cultivated gardens, rolling lawns and natural woodlands provide a unique and valuable resource for its community and for visitors from New York City and other areas.
The focal point of the Arboretum is Coe Hall, a magnificent Tudor-Revival Mansion from the Gold Coast era. Its architecture reflects the style popular during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Tours are available for both individuals and groups.
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Montauk Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in New York area. Ordered by the latest American President, George Washington in 1972, the construction began at the year of 1976, and it also became one of the fourth active lighthouse in the states. This lighthouse height enforce light flashes every 5 seconds and can be seen a distance of 19 nautical miles.
These days, Montauk Lighthouse has one other functionality, which is as a museum. Museum itself contain with photograph of the lighthouse itself, and other gifts and merchandiser. A society also born in this lighthouse, Montauk Historical society. This society concerning about crafts and arts.
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These area comes from an idea of Harry Guggenheim on providing a place for homes of wide variety animals and birds.
Currently Sands Point has become famous for providing Special Exhibitions that are also enjoyable for all ages. The recent Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats, for example, was composed of modular sections which create environmentally lifelike, yet theatrical settings, integrating special effects. A few of the components included an 18th Century Neo-Gothic Portal: examples of bat art, folklore and myth; Upside-Down Myth Gallery: visitors view the world as a bat sees it; Portrait Hall: spectacular bat portrait photography. Many other exhibits, including hands-on, interactive displays add up to a comprehensive, enjoyable presentation that people of all ages will want to see again.
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Sagamore Hill is one of the 26th President of the United States of America, Theodore Roosevelt. He’s been living in there for thirty years and filled his daily activities with education learning. This Queen Anne mansion built in 1885 in Oyster Bay, from 1902 until 1908 this house became focus of international attention cause of its owner activities. The name Sagamore Hill itself comes after Sagamore Mohannis the Indian Chief, who once owned the land, was also called the “Summer White House” because Roosevelt was the first President to run the country away from the white house.
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