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Among the largest estates ever amassed on Long Island was the enormous Renaissance –style mansion...

Flower Hill Village Hall on September 5, 2020 (photograph courtesy of Wikipedia). Flower Hill...

Built before the Civil War as a merchandise store for the Nostrand-Witte company. In 1873, the...

The building was originally built in 1920 as a single story garage for the Roslyn Hudson-Essex...

In 1989 John Collins designed and Albert Margaritas built a bracketed Italianate commercial...

The Bell Hotel was owned by I.W. Bell and built by Benjamin Speedling around 1885. Hotel was called...

Adopted from the Bryant Library On June 18, 1874 noted poet and journalist, William Cullen Bryant,...

Harriet Terry owned a subdivision behind her residence of approximately 27 lots along Church...

This house was part of the Harriet Terry subdivision of land that composed numerous lots purchased...

This building was originally a barn or storage facility prior to 1890 for J.M. Witte. As early as...

The property on which this house has been built has a complex and not yet fully understood early...

The only house of worship within the Roslyn Harbor is St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, which was...

Adapted from the 1973 House Tour Guide The Capt. James Muttee house is a two storey, presently...

This Victorian house was located just north of St. Mary's Rectory in Roslyn Harbor. It was the home...

Best known at the home of the prominent 19th century poet and newspaper editor, William Cullen...

Adapted from the 2003 House Tour Guide Cedarmere has been the site of a mill since the 1770s, when...

Clifton, a Flemish Revival cottage with Gothic Revival detailing designed by New York City...

The tract where Montrose stands, overlooking Hempstead Harbor,was part of the 100-acre farm of...

The first European settlement in the Roslyn Harbor area occurred when a small group of English...

Like its neighbor, the Stephen and Charles Smith House, Springbank rests on property that was...

When Stephen and Marinda Smith acquired this property in 1850, the eastern side of Hempstead Harbor...

Adapted from the 1990 House Guide The estate known as "Greenridge" was built by Arthur Williams....

Photo courtesy of the Bryant Library Local History Collection. Profile by Mitchell Schwartz-...

The Valentine-Robbins house was built in two sections: the easterly portion of it is one of the...

The only know cemetery in Flower Hill has ten known gravesites with internments dating from 1798 to...

In 1925 banker and financier Percy Rivington Pyne II (1882-1950) purchased 69 acres in Roslyn...

This Greek Revival house stood on the east side of East Broadway at the intersection of Old...

A house on this site was built before 1859 as a tenant house on the 74-acre property of John R....

Adapted from the 1974 House Tour Guide. There was no Presbyterian congregation in Roslyn until...

The Lamb-Ramsauer house, located at 44 East Broadway, Roslyn, is now part of lot 542, in section 7,...

Both the Walling Map (1859) and the Beers-Comstock Map (1873) show a house on the site of the...

Wallace E. Cornelius built this Colonial Revival house around 1890 with his father, a skilled...

According to Norma Conklin Kern, Jonathan Conklin (TG, Mott-MageeSkewes 1970-71 and 1983-84, and...

According to Norma Conklin Kern, the Florence Hageman Conklin house was built by her father,...

This merchant's house retains much of its original appearance. It belonged to George Browne who...

The origins of the "A. Nostrand house", originally sited on the west side of the Roslyn-Montrose,...

By 1875 William Cullen Bryant had accumulated approximately 165 acres for his Cedarmere estate, a...

It is Francis Skillman's narrative that identifies this 18th century house as the house of John...

Adapted from the 1988 House Tour Guide Early in the John Rogers House restoration procedure, the...

Adapted from the 1997 House Tour Guide (Pages 46-57) The history of this mid 18th century house is...

The Jacob Sutton Mott House was relocated from 800 Mott's Cove Road, North, to its present site in...

Adapted from the 1968 House Tour Guide The James K. Davis house appears on neither the Walling...

Adapted from the 2004 House Tour Guide By around 1920 the increasing Roslyn Presbyterian...

The land on which the Smith, Valentine, Wood House was built was carved out of a parcel of property...

Samuel Dugan, Jr. was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, September 4, 1849. He died in Roslyn,...

Adapted from the 2004 House Tour Guide (Page 10) On August 17th, 1843, John and Sarah Craft...

Adapted from the 2002 House Tour Guide According to an oral history taken in 1972, the Villagers of...

This interesting five-bay clapboard house is a new arrival in Roslyn. It is a reassembled farmhouse...

Photographer and newspaper dealer William Pickering (1865-1929) purchased this property and the...

This merchant's house was built on land that once belonged to J. Conklin. Conklin was co-owner of...

The original section (north wing) of this fascinating house was constructed in the 1880s for...

This house was built around 1827 as a simple settler's cottage for James Losee. Sections were added...

Adapted from the 1984 House Guide The Evangeline Craft Charlick House does not appear on the...

Adapted from the 1997 House Tour Guide (Page 58) Francis Skillman, in his letter to the Roslyn News...

Source: 1986 House Tour Guide (page 336) Stage I: c. 1860-1910. The tiny house on the 1873 Beers,...

Adapted from the 1987 House Tour Guide (Page 487) Starting about 1835-1840, a merchant, Jacob Mott...

Adapted from the 2002 House Tour Guide William P. Willetts of 175 Warner Avenue, Roslyn Heights,...

In September 1957, model homes were constructed to promote the new Country Estates housing...

Designed in 1902 by architects Warren and Wetmore in an eclectic style. It is a ​2 1⁄2-story frame...

Adapted from the 2005 House Tour Guide A two-story house organized around an L-shaped plan, this...

The Krizek House is one of the most architecturally unique homes in Flower Hill. Built in 1970 on...

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born in 1875 to shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt,...

This U-Shaped Norman French chateau with its two distinctive stair towers was designed by J. Henri...

Adapted from the 1977 House Tour Guide This house was built before 1851 as a small cottage, and...

Source: 1978 House Tour Guide This simplified Queen Anne Revival house is believed to have been...

The construction of the John F. Remsen House, in the Queen Anne Colonial Revival style, began in...

Adapted from the 1994 House Tour Guide (Page 801) The Thomas Clapham Barn was re-located from its...

These eight garages were built around 1928 for Roslyn Motors and then to house the automobiles of...

The Harbor Hill Elementary School was built in the early 1960s, opening on January 8, 1962 to...

Bulls Head Inn was built as an inn by Adam Heiss around 1875 on the northeast busy corner of North...

The service buildings for the John Mackay III Estate including a cottage, garage, stable and kennel....

This 14-room was originally located on the Taber-Willets property off Old Westbury in Old Westbury....

Adapted from the 1969 House Tour Guide In 1854 Mr. and Mrs. William Cairns of Clifton, (now...

This large ten bedroom house was built for Julie Fay Bradley (1876-1971) by William Lawrence...

Adapted from 1993 House Tour Guide (Page 705) The property on which "Wenlo" is located has a...

The 18-hole Engineers Country Club was established in 1917 on the former site of the W.R. Willet...

Adapted from the 1993 House Tour Guide In addition to the Thomas Clapham House, the only other...

Founded in 1860 by residents with African American and often Native American ancestry, the Salem...

The Mackay Estate Gate Lodge is architecturally significant as a representative example of a...

The History of Roslyn Air National Guard Station 1941-2000 by Jan Klebukowski Click here for a...

Adapted from the 1971 House Tour Guide The location of Boxwood Cottage does not appear to be...

Luxottica Group Headquarters (Adapted from Mojo-Stumer Associates, architects for the building)...

Adapted from the 1998 House Tour Guide (Page 68) The part of Roslyn Village bounded by West Shore...

Adapted from the 1987 House Tour Guide (page 470) The house at #17 Hicks Street started life as a...

Adapted from the 2006 House Tour Guide. This house is often referred to as the Rock and Roll House....

Adapted from the 2019 House Tour Guide The house was built by John Remsen who at that time lived in...

Hempstead Harbor Burying Ground, active from 1799-1861, is the only burying ground in the Village...

The house at 9 Layton Street was moved to its present site along with others in the neighborhood...

Adapted from the 1987 House Tour Guide On May 5, 1868, Arthur Duffett purchased a parcel of land...

Adapted from the 1987 House Tour Guide On May 5, 1868, Arthur Duffett purchased a parcel of land...

Roslyn Middle School opened in 1957 as Roslyn Junior High School. It was built by the Roslyn Union...

This building was constructed in 1823 for Daniel Bogart. in 1880, it was used as a silk mill by...

This 46,000 square foot building is an excellent example of commercial adaptive reuse. It was...

This beautiful Town of North Hempstead park is located within the boundaries of Main Street, East...

William M. Valentine was one of the most important Roslyn merchants in the 1800s. He built this row...

In 1865 stonemason Samuel Dugan built this stone bridge over Main Street in Roslyn that allowed the...

A. Kilpatrick's Store was Roslyn's candy and tobacco store in the early 1900s. The primary site of...

Adapted from the 1978 Tour Guide Book (P11). This account provides the opportunity to insert the...

"Lincoln Motor Cars Exclusively" proclaimed Roslyn Motors Inc. in their full page advertisement in...

Built as a single family tenant house for John Willis. Three-bay clapboard dwelling of three...

In 1835, John Willis, who operated a grist mill in Hempstead Harbor (now Roslyn) and (according to...

This popular Roslyn restaurant was built in 1950. The dining room extension was constructed in...

Adapted from the 1983 House Tour Guide (Page 43-45) The Locust Hill Utility House was observed...

The oldest section of the house was built around 1835 for George Allen, who lived next door. Listed...

The majority of Roslyn's public architecture was constructed during the first four decades of the...

Adapted from 1999 House Tour Guide Henry Clay Thorne, a son of Leonard Thorn, was born in 1845 and...

This small waterfront building was built in 1949 and later was the headquarters for the Roslyn...

Adapted from the 1997 House Tour Guide The builder of this lovely cottage, Henry Western Eastman,...

The John Mott House is indicated on the Walling Map (1859) as belonging to "J.M.MottT and on the...

Henry W. Eastman was born in 1826 and started his law practice in Roslyn in 1847. To supplement the...

Number 72 Main Street is the very last gasp of the Vaux fundamental design to have been built in...

With the exception of William Cullen Bryant, Henry Eastman was the most influential Roslyn...

At the General Meeting of the Town of North Hempstead in April, 1679, a "hundred akers" of land on...

Adapted from the 1986 House Tour Guide Very early in the 19th century William Valentine...

Adapted from the 1992 House Tour Guide The Henry Clay Thorne House was exhibited on the Landmark...

Adapted from 1992 House Tour Guide Leonard Thorn owned two houses in 1873, #88 Main Street, and #94...

Adapted from the House Tour Guide (1986) William Valentine (1781-1863) purchased the...

Prior to 1835, Captain James W. Smith (1784-1879), "the fashionable tailor of the village and town"...

Adapted from the 1998 House Tour Guide (Page 661-658) There is no real record of when the Roslyn...

Adapted from 1996 House Tour Guide (Pages 902-918)..... The Hendrickson-Ely-Brower House is shown...

The Old Presbyterian parsonage is one of the best documented houses in Roslyn.The Roslyn News for...

Among the largest estates ever amassed on Long Island was the enormous Renaissance –style mansion...

The son of barrel and cask maker Wilson Williams, John Williams was a builder.Like many of the...

Master carpenter John S. Wood built this house for himself. He was married to Sarah Wilkey, sister...

The Samuel Dugan I house may be the earliest building in Roslyn exhibiting Italianate details...

Between 1773 and 1775, Wilson Williams, a cooper by trade, constructed the earliest part of this...

Napoleon Forget owned the largest of the blacksmith shops located on Main Street. The second floor...

This building served as the parsonage for the Wesley Methodist Church for Hempstead Harbor, which...

The James Sexton House (Circa 1849) and the Smith-Hegeman House (Circa 1840) were moved to their...

One of Roslyn's most imposing dwellings and certainly its best example of the Second Empire...

Adapted from the 1978 House Tour Guide (Page 76) The original Wilkey house stable was located...

The Smith-Hegeman house and the James Sexton House were moved to the present Main Street locations...

The early history of the site of the Jacob Kirby Tenant House is described in the chapter on the...

Adapted from the 1995 House Tour Guide. From the early days of Hempstead Harbor until 1970, this...

The history of the school house is related to that of the historical description of the Van...

From 1870 to 1971, this workman’s cottage built by Captain Kirby was attached to the Van...

Adapted from the 1986 House Tour Guide (page 363) Prior to the Civil War, indoor plumbing was not...

Adapted from the 1982 House Tour Guide An accessory structure for the Roslyn Railroad Station is...

It is the smaller parcel of land, north of East Broadway and its Main Street intersection, with...

Built for John Mackay III, grandson of John Mackay, one of the discoverers of the Comstock silver...

The Flower Hill Garden Apartments on Middle Neck Road in Flower Hill were built in the early 1960s...

This Colonial Revival House was built around 1900 for Walter George Oakman, Sr., chairman of the...

This Neo-Italian Renaissance house was designed by Warren & Clark in 1920 for Frank C....

Adapted form the 1998 House Tour Guide (Page 108) The bungalow style house located at 69 Mott...

Adapted from the 1995 House Tour Guide (Page 946) This diminutive bungalow was built on land...

Historic postcards reveal that this charming Carpenter Gothic cottage was one of a number of...

Roslyn Harbor Village Hall was built in 1975 during the administration of Mayor Robert Lisle after...

According to Henry Western Eastman's History of Roslyn, which was published serially in the Roslyn...

AT&T Long Lines Tower The telecommunications tower in Roslyn Harbor behind the Roslyn Harbor...

Adapted from the 1984 House Tour Guide The Roslyn "Plain Dealer" for August 28,1851 (Vol. 2, #7)...

Most of the Museum’s 145 acres originally belonged to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), long time...

Considered one of the most unusual examples of garden architecture in America, the Milliken-Bevin...

Adapted from the 1982 House Tour Guide (Page 82) In 1862 William Cullen Bryant commissioned a...

Founded around 1860, this burial ground was a result of the Rural Cemetery Act, which sought to...

A view of the William Cullen Bryant Bridge from the Roslyn Grist Mill on November 11, 2020. Adapted...

The Townsend Cemetery is the burying ground for 31 of early English Quaker settlers to the Roslyn...

Adapted from the 1983 House Tour Guide During the second quarter of the 19th century the...

On April 18, 1906, Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of industrialist and art collector, Clarence Mackay,...

Adapted from: AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk County (1992) This impressive and...

The Beers-Comstock Map (1859) shows six houses located on the north side of Northern Boulevard east...

Armenia Carhart purchased a piece of vacant land from John and Rachel Tatterson, local Roslyn...

Over two million makeup and mascara products were produced and sold from this 315,000 square-foot...

Two-story building with stores on the street level and apartments on the second floor. Stores...

These two clapboard buildings were part of an early plan to fill this section of Silver Lake for...

After the Hempstead Harbor Creek was dredged in 1929, Anton (Tony) Walbridge built this boathouse...

Adapted from 1988 House Tour Guide In 1884, Ellen Eliza Ward donated the first public monument in...

It is believed that the house at 1100 Old Northern Boulevard was built by Daniel Noon in 1830 and...

It is difficult to date the Mott-Gallagher House on the basis of its title chain. Structurally,...

The lot on which this house is situated was created in June of 1872 when Frederick M. Eastman and...

This residence was built around 1888 by Roslyn carpenter Stephen Speedling who had a store on Mill...

Adapted from the 1983 House Tour Guide. During the second quarter of the 19th century the...

Built around 1926, the service station for the Lincoln dealership was located 1/4 mile north of the...

The current Roslyn Village Hall opened in 1995 when the Village of Roslyn needed to relocate its...

Built by Jean Pine in 1740.Dutch-speaking Hendrick Onderdonk was the largest property owner in...

This one-story store was built around 1901 with a half-timbered, slate roof. In seen in the below...

This 2 1/2 story "double house" was built for J &B Hicks in 1850. It was originally clapboard...

Adapted from the 1980 House Tour The first member of the Hicks family to reside in Roslyn (then...

This two-story, frame building with Colonial Revival style detailing was built as a store the Hicks...

The Roslyn Grist Mill is a rare surviving Dutch-framed watermill built between 1715 and 1741...

1354, 1358 and 1362 Old Northern Boulevard were originally two buildings built by Bertram X. Sussel...

Three adjacent buildings (1353, 1355 and 1363 Old Northern Boulevard) were built for Frederick C....

1354, 1358 and 1362 Old Northern Boulevard were originally two buildings built by Bertram X. Sussel...

Three adjacent buildings (1353, 1355 and 1363 Old Northern Boulevard) were built for Frederick C....

This one-story cinderblock building was built in 1951 as a retail store. It is currently the home...

In the late 1800s, this building was a very active general store owned by Joshua T. Hicks who lived...

From Roslyn Restored: An architecturally element of the downtown, this building was demolished to...

This building was originally the Benjamin Hicks Lumber Office and in 1911 became the Conklin, Tubby...

The 14-room Roslyn Hotel stood on the south east corner of Milldam (Old Northern Boulevard and East...

This historic commercial building was built in 1932. It replaced a 1906 bank building that housed...

Board & Batten cottage style with added Queen Anne details. William Bunker Tubby designed the...

In an 1851 letter, in which he describes his boyhood in Hempstead Harbor (now Roslyn), the Right...

According to "The Valentines in America" by T.W. Valentine (Clark & Maynard, N.Y., 1874),...

The harness shop of John F. Remsen was located here in the late 1880s. The building is...

The Mansion House was built around 1860 on the southeast corner of Remsen Avenue (then Mansion...

The Roslyn National Bank and Trust Company was originally call the Bank of Hempstead Harbor...

Adapted from the 2004 House Tour Guide Once located at 69 Remsen Avenue, this two-story frame...

Willet Titus was born in 1827 and lived until 1911. In 1858 he married Phebe Witson who was born in...

This was the home of David D. Kirby (1820-1901) and his family in the late 1880s. Kirby, the son of...

John Remson built the Hewlett & Remsen Garage in the early 1900s.John Remsen also owned a large...

A village school stood on this location at School Street (later part of Old Northern Boulevard) as...

Although the department was established on November 1, 1852, this Colonial Revival style firehouse...

A major section of the house existed in 1769 when Richard Valentine gave the house and the land to...

With the death of Elizabeth Skillman Andrews in the 1930s, the Francis Skillman House and farm were...

Willet Titus was born in 1827 and lived until 1911. In 1858 he married Phebe Witson who was born in...

Built on the site of the Willet Titus General Store in 1940 as a funeral home. It became the...

This building housed A.E. Pickard's drugstore (left) and the Roslyn Post Office (right). A horse...

This center hall Greek Revival was built around 1840 to 1845.

•The 46-acre property in Roslyn was originally owned by early settlers of Long Island –the related...

The “Old Brick” house was built originally in 1820 for Samuel Titus IV. It was one of the first...

At time of the American Revolution, Hugh Gaines made white sheets to print his Tory paper New-York...

The three ponds of Roslyn have been a historic feature of the village and town for over 300 years....

This stone monument in Gerry Park holds the Honor Roll of Roslyn plaque listing the names of the...

Adapted from the Bryant Library 1800: Built between 1795-1810. Possibly built by William Valentine,...

History of the Bryant Library By Myrna Sloam THE BRYANT LIBRARY is the oldest continuing library in...

This building was constructed in the 1940s as an auto showroom and garage for Bay Pontiac. Designed...

Image: The North Hempstead Country Club’s clubhouse in 2022. The North Hempstead Country Club...

Adapted from the 1994 House Tour Stone House stands on land formerly owned by William Cullen...

The Cottage Hotel, known also as Speedling's, was built around 1865 on the corner of Garden Street...

With the Long Island Railroad reaching Roslyn Heights in 1865, a commercial district began to build...

Adapted from the 1983 House Tour Guide (Page 94) Samuel Adams Warner (1822-1897) was a prominent...

Designed in the style of an Italian Renaissance villa in 1900 to 1902, this estate was one of the...

The Harbor Hill Water Tower is sited atop a hill on an open area just west of Redwood Drive, in...

Among the largest estates ever amassed on Long Island was the enormous Renaissance –style mansion...

Adapted form the 1997 House Tour Guide (Page 88). The handsome Colonial Revival building known as...

The Walling Map of 1859 shows the land at the northwest corner of Lincoln Avenue and what is now...

The Salem AME Church was founded in 1860, making it one of the oldest religious communities in the...

Source: "Synagogues of Long Island" by Ira Poliakoff (2017)

Source: Book "Synagogues of Long Island" by Ira Poliakoff (2017)...

The property for the Roslyn High School and its athletic field was donated by financier Clarence...

The East Hills Elementary School was built by the Roslyn Union Free School District as one of four...

Among the largest estates ever amassed on Long Island was the enormous Renaissance –style mansion...

The 98-acre Christopher Morley Park was developed by Nassau County in the 1960s on the land...

Adapted from the Christopher Morley Knothole Association website The “Knothole” is a tiny one-room...

History of property: "Roslyn Court," now Sinclair Martin Drive, was developed in 1938, and...

The renowned Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral lived at this Roslyn Harbor location...

The first Roslyn Railroad Station, a simple wooden structure, was built in 1864 to provide service...

This Dutch Colonial house was once the home to noted American author, Christopher Morley, the...

Insight to the first residences in Roslyn Estates is provided in the book Gardens of Eden edited by...

This lovely Colonial Revival home was designed by noted Long Island architect Walter Uhl and was...

The original sales office built for developer Dean Alvord to sell Roslyn Estates residences. Later...

Resting in a lovely wooded lot, this house - with its glistening white paint and green trim -...

The Abeles House is one of the most unique residences in the Roslyn community. It was designed in...

This residence is one of the earliest residences built in Roslyn Estates dating back to circa...

56 The Intervale (right) in the 1926 Roslyn Estates sales brochure.

60 The Intervale was originally built as a beautiful Tudor.

Source: Half Pudding Half Sauce The Davies house at Roslyn, Long Island, is not a period house,...

Roslyn Estates Village Hall was built in 1972 during the administration of Mayor Robert Zucker on...

The Ellen E Ward Clock Tower was commissioned by her children and dedicated to her memory in 1895....

This cannon was taken from the Spanish sloop Jorge Juan which was sunk off Port Nipe, Cuba during...

This structure was built for Roslyn merchant William M. Valentine during the Civil War and was the...

This building was built as a tenant house for Hicks & Eastman in 1911. Later, the first floor...

Adapted from correspondence from Carol Clarke, Archivist, Bryant Library Local History Collection,...

Adapted from correspondence from Carol Clarke, Archivist, Bryant Library Local History Collection,...

Created in 1999 by the Town of North Hempstead, this historic district consists is a cohesive...

Methodism originally came to the area in 1787 when Bishop Francis Ashbury of England preached in...

This Colonial Revival was built for Charles Willis in 1923. Later, it was owned by industrialist...

Bonnieview- Owned by the Warner/Balttazzi Families (circa 1870-1912) Samuel Adams Warner...

The structure at #7 West Shore Road originally was built to serve as a carriage house for the...

This house was built by George W. Denton in 1875. It is not shown on the Beers-Comstock Map, which...

The Highland School opened in the early 1950s as one of three new schools built by the Roslyn Union...

Adapted from the 2005 House Tour Guide Sections of the area that would become known as Roslyn...

Resting on a large lot in the Roslyn Heights neighborhood, this gracious two-and-a-half storied...

This lovely home is an excellent example of a house style known as the American Foursquare or...