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Beacon Towers Gates, Sands Point, New York
As I walked down the steps I saw that the evening was not quite over. Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe which [...]
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Beacon Towers Gate House
Sands Point, New York
The house on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of [...]
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Beacon Towers, demolished 1945, Landscape in 2008,
Sands Point, New York
“That’s my Middle West—not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. [...]
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Ghost Home of Daisy Buchanan
Land’s End, Fictional Home of Daisy Buchanan, Sands Point, New York
“Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick [...]
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Sands Point, New York
“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could [...]
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Great Neck Estates, New York
Wanting to find a sense of normality in life, and also save a few bucks in the process, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda moved from Manhattan to Long Island, taking the house at 6 Gateway Drive in Great Neck Estates, in the fall of 1922. The author and his [...]
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