"The Oaks", summer residence of Louis Bossert, South Country Road, 1908.
Bossert, a Brooklyn lumber dealer and real estate developer, acquired the estate from James Hazen Hyde (son of the founder of the Equitable Life assurance company) for around $400,000 in cash in August 1905.
The estate consisted of 400 acres including 1 mile of private bayfront and featured a working farm, private railroad access, a 64-foot wide canal from the bay, an elaborate carriage house, a squash court, and a sewage and drainage plant. The main house could seat 100 guests for dinner and was originally designed by Calvert Vaux.
Bossert, a Brooklyn lumber dealer and real estate developer, acquired the estate from James Hazen Hyde (son of the founder of the Equitable Life assurance company) for around $400,000 in cash in August 1905.
The estate consisted of 400 acres including 1 mile of private bayfront and featured a working farm, private railroad access, a 64-foot wide canal from the bay, an elaborate carriage house, a squash court, and a sewage and drainage plant. The main house could seat 100 guests for dinner and was originally designed by Calvert Vaux.
"The Oaks", summer residence of Louis Bossert, South Country Road, 1908.
Bossert, a Brooklyn lumber dealer and real estate developer, acquired the estate from James Hazen Hyde (son of the founder of the Equitable Life assurance company) for around $400,000 in cash in August 1905.
The estate consisted of 400 acres including 1 mile of private bayfront and featured a working farm, private railroad access, a 64-foot wide canal from the bay, an elaborate carriage house, a squash court, and a sewage and drainage plant. The main house could seat 100 guests for dinner and was originally designed by Calvert Vaux.
Bossert, a Brooklyn lumber dealer and real estate developer, acquired the estate from James Hazen Hyde (son of the founder of the Equitable Life assurance company) for around $400,000 in cash in August 1905.
The estate consisted of 400 acres including 1 mile of private bayfront and featured a working farm, private railroad access, a 64-foot wide canal from the bay, an elaborate carriage house, a squash court, and a sewage and drainage plant. The main house could seat 100 guests for dinner and was originally designed by Calvert Vaux.
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