This week's video is an inside look at Walter Chrysler's immense mansion in Kings Point, Long Island- the first home of Chrysler's Chrysler.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick & Greg O.
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Wow I did not realize that building was the Chrysler home. I always thought the nearby campus nautical museum was the “Chrysler Mansion” who’s mansion was the museum?
Thanks for the video Howard. I lived just down the road from the USMMA for many years.
BTW also a few blocks away sits the former home of Harry Sinclair, the founder of Sinclair Oil.
Steven-
The museum was ‘Elm Point’, the William Slocum Barstow estate designed by Greville Rickard c. 1917 in Kings Point. Barstow was mayor of Kings Point from 1924 to 1940.
Jeff-
I also grew up down the road on Wood road at the back gate to Parkwood. Class of GN North 1986.
I thought I was aware of most of the GN estates, but didn’t know (or completely forgot) about Sinclair. Thanks for the info!
Gardens of the estate - https://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-breath-of-riviera-estate-of-walter-p.html