Upper Brookville, New York recent comments:

2024 - I can’t believe this beautiful Gold Coast mansion has been torn down. I knew there were plans for a Mill River Development, but I always thought this house would be maintained / restored and retain the history of the area. Sad.

This house and all of the outbuildings are gone.

I've been in here a few times trying to find this burying ground, and was not able to discover it. Does anyone have any "proof" of the existence of this?

Hello, Barry. It was referenced from "Long Island’s Prominent North Shore Families: Their Estates and Their Country Homes" by Judith and Raymond Spinzia.

Hi, I am wondering if you could point me to the source for this information? I don't see this home listed in any books or or on any other websites. Thank you.

well preserved most of structure from 1915

Thank you for sharing this memory, John. I just came across your post three years after you wrote it. I grew up with the furniture from this house because it was bequeathed to my step-mother who was Alida's first cousin. I grew up with stories about the meals prepared by Camille the French cook you describe and am sadly auctioning off all the plates and glasses with the family crest on them. I have kept a few things but the stories are priceless and I have seeds saved from the gardens you played in. Everything was immaculately preserved and documented.

I grew up here at applewood...in the shade of the old orchard...

I grew up on Donna Drive in Upper Brookville from 1961 till 1979. When I was 12 I discovered the Livingston Estate just through the woods. There were numerous root cellars, greenhouses, large mature shrubs and other curiosities. So much so that it became a place to play in after school. One day we were discovered and taken to Ms Livingston who appeared to be older than my grandmother, so she was old. But she was the sweetest woman in the world to me. She had her cook/maid make french cookies, which she said were her favorites. She told me to come over by 4pm and she would have fresh cookies for me. She also flew pigeons and had over 30 birds she flew everyday. She gave me 2 birds as a gift and told me to keep them in the cage for 2 weeks an feed them and then they will come back when I release them. Of course she was just being kind to a young boy. As soon as I released them I watched them make a bee-line back to her house. The next day when I visited and saw them she said I could visit them when I wanted. Eventually I found other after school interests and stopped visiting her. Then about 4 years later I met a boy who lived there and that was when I knew she was gone. She was a woman who never had children that loved children, I can only hope she is at peace, she was a gentle soul.

It was reported yesterday that the house sold for $5.6 Million by Fred Declara of Laffey Fine Homes.

maybe some confusion here..family friends lived in this home from the late 1970's thru the 1990's..they always called thier home, "Applewood" ???. Notice home next door, tagged , Applewood.

"Applewood"..famous scenes from the film, Three days of the Condor", filmed inside the home.

This place was great. Used to go there all the time in the early 1980s.

Someone should adjust the property line here..Filasky's extended all the way to behind Mike Suozzi's Gulf station at corner of Cedar Swamp road and Hegemans lane. Does anyone remember the vegetable carousel?

Coe Hall was the original temporary site of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1957 before moving to it's permanent home in Stony Brook L.I.

Once saw a 1920's Roll Royce roll out of the driveyway from this estate in the 1970's

Isn't this also known as Fox Hall?

Although I have no connection to the area I sympathize enormously with your loss. Tax policy and other incentives need to be changed to make it easier for amenity lands like Filasky Farm to remain open space, because once it's gone, it's gone! Too bad the farm isn't still growing crops of pumpkins instead of hideous McMansions.

Its journey to Long Island began in 1927, when Ashbel H. Barney, part of an old New York family, was in the market for a French chateau. He shipped an entire wing of the Château des Thons, started in 1760, right down to the green moss on the flagstone pavers, from Les Petits Thons back to New York.The Château des Thons, as it stands on Long Island, was built from the stones of the original right wing of a castle in Thons once owned by Voltaire's lover's cousin by marriage, Jean du Châtelet, Mr. Michel said. The owner's wife, also a Mme. du Châtelet, lived in that wing.Voltaire, Mr. Michel said, was "never, never, never" in the Château des Thons. The story was started by a former owner of the Upper Brookville home, Mr. Michel believes, who visited Les Petits Thons and may have confused the details of its ownership. Newsday, By VALERIE COTSALAS Published: February 5, 2006