Gould-Guggenheim Estate

Sands Point Preserve is a 216-acre county park on Long Island Sound in Nassau County, New York. It was assembled from the estates of financier Howard Gould and the Guggenheim family. Gould built a castle-like mansion, later renamed Hempstead House, and a massive granite stable complex designed by Augustus N. Allen around 1902. Daniel Guggenheim bought the property in 1917 and developed it as a working farm with stables, a dairy and thoroughbred horses. His son Harry received part of the land in 1923 and built Falaise, a French Norman manor house by Frederick Sterner and Polhemus & Coffin. Mille Fleur, an eighteenth-century French style house, followed around 1932. Outbuildings include a dairy barn, gate lodge, boathouse, bridges and an iron estate fence. The district is significant as a group of period revival buildings and landscapes that record how wealthy industrial families lived in the early twentieth century. Today the stables serve as the visitor center and museum.