August Heckscher's Winter Cottage, Estate of the Day
Who, you might ask, is August Hecksher? Newsday reports that Hecksher was an industrialist, real estate developer and philanthropist. His legacy includes both the Hecksher State Park in East Islip, New York and Heckscher Park in Huntington, New York as well as Huntington's Hecksher Museum of Art. Hi former winter cottage is a 1902 cedar shake Dutch colonial on 1.05 acre in the Huntington community of Wincoma.
It has a beautiful wide porch, a kitchen and butlers pantry and six bedrooms total, two of which were likely used as servants' rooms at one point. The bathrooms have been remodeled. The property has a pool, greenhouse and a hot tub. The listing says that there is a pool complex and underground spa and waterfall but it's not in the listing pics. This home is listed at $2.5 million.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Green Mar 17th 2010 1:17PM
Fun cottage, great location and views. Someone sure got carried away at Home Depot buying bad light fixtures. Way out of character for a little Dutch Colonial cottage...
Raul Mar 17th 2010 1:45PM
Nice interior, grounds. Yesterday was about the 4th time in the last few months there was no "Estate of the Day." Deidre: your EOD is the only reason I come to this site.
Keenan Reilly Mar 17th 2010 2:54PM
Agreed EOD is the only reason I visit
Rebecca Mar 17th 2010 11:03PM
This house is beautiful!
I love Estate of the Day, my favorite type of posts on the site. (I mean not to make you feel guilty for having missed but to express appreciation for all the days you've provided posts on so many different estates.)
stalban9 Mar 18th 2010 1:49AM
Lovely house - for the most part tastefully done - I wouldn't say no if it was offered to me.
Agreed - I like this site but I love EoD!
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