Some Gold Coast residents received such decadent wedding presents from their parents as their own North Shore estate.
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| Paul Pennoyer, husband of Frances Tracy Morgan © PJM |
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| Round Bush, home of Paul and Frances Tracy Pennoyer (née Morgan) © PJM |
Financier J.P. Morgan gave his children approximately 30 acres each on Duck Pond Road and a home designed by Roger Bullard.
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| Harry Guggenheim and wife. |
Daniel and Florence Guggenheim gave up their private golf course in order to give their son Harry and his bride,
Falaise, a French Norman style home perched on a bluff overlooking Hempstead Harbor.
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| The Field's Caumsett © North Shore Long Island Country Houses, 1890-1950 |
Marshall Field and his wife Evelyn build their dream homes together in Manhattan (at 70th and 5th Avenue, razed) and Lloyd Neck (now
Caumsett State Park).
Benjamin and Alexandra Moore designed
Chelsea in Muttontown with the help of Delano & Aldrich and hundreds of pictures taken on their honeymoon trip to Europe and Asia.
Haha! People like this probably have a basement storage room chock full of Gold bars. Disgusting. Unless of course I myself had a fmaily as rich as that. Then I would jump in my yacht and say HAR-DEE-HAR-HAR TO YOU SIR and sail off into the sunset.
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