Photos from 1946 when LIFE went to the North Shore of Long Island to peep in on the lives, and beautiful homes, of the ultra-rich. Click below for more ⬇️ ✨ (📷 Nina Leen/LIFE Picture Collection) LIFEMagazine 1940s NorthShore LongIsland NewYork
The Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley on the North Shore of Long Island, N.Y., 1946.Golfers at a country club on Long Island’s North Shore, 1946.Thomas Bradley and his wife played golf at a country club on Long Island’s North Shore, 1946.The Aviation Country Club in Hicksville, Long Island featured a hangar which housed 25 planes belonging to members and four other aircraft reserved for members who did not have their own, 1946.
Men lined up their sailboats at the starting line at the Seawanhaka yacht club, Long Island’s North Shore, 1946.Sunbathers at a country club on Long Island’s North Shore, 1946.
The gates to the estate of John Phipps, son of the partner of Andrew Carnegie, on the North Shore of Long Island, N.Y., 1946.Wendy McCrary relaxed in La Granja, the art-filled North Shore home of her parents, 1946; her father, D.S. Iglehart, ran the Grace shipping line.Edgar Leonard and his wife hosted a luncheon at their home, with their longtime butlers, identified by LIFE with only their last names Smith and Froggart, and a note that Smith spoke three languages, North Shore, Long Island, N.Y.
W.R. Coe looking over the orchids in his greenhouse with his estate superintendent on the North Shore of Long Island, N.Y., 1946.The front gated entrance to W.R. Coe’s estate; the gates were built in Sussex, England in 1720 and bought by Coe in 1921 from Lord Wittenham in 1921.The estate of W.R. Coe, an insurance, railroad and business executive, 1946; the home today is a museum and part of the Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in Oyster Bay, N.Y..
The home of stockbroker Edwin A. Fish in Locust Valley on the North Shore of Long Island, N.Y., 1946.A canopied bed covered in flower print from a North Shore estate, 1946.The living room of a North Shore estate, Long Island, N.Y., 1946.Hand-painted trays adorned the walls of the North Shore home of Harvey Gibson, president of Manufacturers Trust bank, Long Island, N.Y., 1946.Mrs. Cyrus Newkick Johns, exiting the church with her husband after their wedding ceremony at St.
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