Tag: Vanderbilt

The Steamboat Lexington with Bill Bleyer

March 27, 2023
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Color lithograph showing the steamboat Lexington burning in the Long Island Sound at night with passengers in the water in the foreground.
1840 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier

On a frigid night in January 1840, the luxury steamboat Lexington burned and sank in the middle of the Long Island Sound with over 140 people on board. What followed […]

Preservation Awards: Oakdale Historical Society

June 12, 2020
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Photo of the Idle Hour Mansion in Oakdale overlooking the enclosed garden and flanking breezeways.
View of the former Dowling College, aka William K. Vanderbilt's Idle Hour mansion.

Maryann Almes, president of the Oakdale Historical Society, joins us to discuss the organization’s role in preserving and celebrating the history of Oakdale. Located in Islip on the south shore […]

Sayville’s Gilded Age Boss Architect

May 17, 2017
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Sayville Public Library Historic Image and Notes Collection

Isaac H. Green, Jr. was the man to call if you needed a house built around the turn of the last century on the South Shore of Long Island. As […]

The Coolest Field Trip You’ll Ever Take

September 30, 2016
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William K. Vanderbilt II
1903 photograph of William K. Vanderbilt II by Theodore C. Marceau. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

When an athletic, thrill-seeking millionaire builds a mansion hideaway on the outskirts of the city, stocking it with a technologically advanced fleet of cars, boats and airplanes along with trophies […]