Winfield Hall The Woolworth Estate part3

halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.... Part 3 of 3 - Winfield Hall - The Woolworth Estate. Best viewed full screen to allow pausing and reading of text. Pairing a 1925 auction document and readily available photos I've compiled a companion video to the Bob Ghent Video production. Winfield Hall is one of the last remaning Long Island Gold Coast estates. Built for Frank Winfield Woolworth of dimestore fame. Winfield Hall was buit in 1916 after Woolworth's original home burned. Cass Gilbert, who designed the Woolworth Building in New York ,is often wrongly named as the architect. Winfield Hall was designed by Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert who designed many notable Gold Coast estates that now sadly are gone. Thanks and enjoy.

[@elizabethferguson7002]

I'm so thankful someone saved Winfield Hall, like Biltmore, and the Schweppes Mansion. The Armour Estate belongs to Lake Forest Academy, but the original home's grandeur has never been lost. These are America's Castles, frozen in a gilded age that can never be duplicated.

[@loverenegade3580]

These three videos are such a treasure. Thank you.

[@teabagally]

I can still remember well all the times as kids we would meet at the lunchcounter of Woolworths store at the corner of George and Charlotte streets in Peterborough Ontario Canada. Town Farmers Market and Town Clock across the street and Squ are Dancing Friday Nights. No cell phones: full concentration of having Fun; Fun;Fun:

[@davidweston9115]

I can't imagine why this hasn't been torn down yet !! It doesn't even have wall to wall carpeting ! How can people live like this. It's like a mausoleum. At least gut out all that "ginger bread" and put in some nice plain sheetrock and dropped ceilings. Those 20 foot ceilings are so old looking. Drop those down to about 8 feet with a metal grid and square tile panel inserts, like a modern office ceiling. All that gold leaf and plaster is so passe. N'est-ce pas? (Just kidding. that whole thing was sarcasm. We lived in a similar house in NJ, but those were the comments we got most often). No we didn't have wall to wall carpeting, we had wall to wall marble from Italy, put in at behest of architects Carerre and Hastings in 1916, and we didn't feel like ripping it out or covering it up with wall to wall carpeting just because the TV set and magazines were pushing that on account of it being the cheapest method of covering a subfloor in a new house. when we bought our house it was to stop it from being torn down. Now it's owned by a pharmaceutical magnate (who may tear it down at any minute to put a proper new house that looks like a post apocalyptic movie set). I know this is an old video but I think someone may still watch it in the future, and part of my reason for commenting is to make the video come up in the searches more often and give the uploader a little juice..

[@dollzbyelectra]

Thank you so much for these 3 amazing videos ! I am reading "Poor little rich girl" about Barbara Hutton and she told how sad was living in the mansion with her ill grandparents.

[@lindanorris3226]

FABULOUS PLACE GUYS 🎀🕍💫🤗 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING US BEAUTIFUL 🎀🏛💫🧸

[@66collinwood]

Love this mansion! It's a shame that it's all gone now!

[@emilytrotta8327]

its still there. i live right down the street. they've been doing renovations for years now but i don't see much progress. Hard to tell from the outside though maybe inside is in better shape.

[@judyimel5697]

Wow love

[@cproducer]

@goobleglob 1st and 2nd floor are pictured in the beginning of part three. I've yet to see 3rd floor or basement plans.

[@cproducer]

@catghost7 There was a auction in November 1975. According to Monica Randall in her book "WINFIELD' LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF THE WOOLWORTHS "all of Woolworth's prized possessions were sold for a mere fraction of their worth." Theirs a chapter in the book that describes the whole thing. It also mentions a CBS newscaster(Carol Martin) filming at auction. You have to wonder if someone has archival footage?

[@lareinadiondra6027]

cproducer yeah that guy who was Governor Hugh Carey's brother bought several of these old mansions, got tax deferments and claimed he was going to restore them ,but for the most part the restorations never happened

[@conniecharley7086]

believe it or not I have the look of the smaller white and gold fireplace in my bedroom, I bet when furnished was something amazing being able to build a home like this owning a five and dime store.

[@doniellestenson5231]

Connie Charley at the time it was the walmart of its day. 5 and 10 stores were the rage.

[@capemaxi]

Every town had a Woolworths, a Kress Store or Newberry's. They were the Walmarts of their day. The toy displays were dreamy. And you could buy candy from walled glass display cases. Our Woolworths had a lunch counter that served good food.

[@cproducer]

Remake of the classic Joan Crawford "Mildred Pierce" is being shot at Winfield Hall for a February 2011 HBO mini-series.

[@1940limited]

The original Mildred Pierce was a great movie. According to that, she made it big, but never had a house like the Woolworth's. S

[@pinky5097]

Just wow!

[@cproducer]

@johns279 Pre-loaded on Windows Movie Maker -Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia Symphony No. 3.

[@billthatcher4121]

The descriptions move much too swiftly to be able to read them in their entirety!!! What's the rush??? Should be paced at about half the speed!!! One loses the full effect of this Grand Estate. So sad.

[@t5239857289578947594]

simply increadible

[@cproducer]

Part 3 is a companion video to the Bob Ghent Video production Winfield Hall The Woolworth Estate part 1 and 2. Search "winfield Hall".

[@sandypompilii6901]

Amazing

[@elizabethferguson7002]

My first job was at Woolworths in Addison, IL. I worked at the candy counter in the center aisle, next to shoes, and across from housewares. Wow, I just visualized it. Haven't thought of that in decades. Nothing was selling for nickles and dimes (other than candy) but the store was located just a stone's throw from Benjamin Franklins 5 and dime. Gosh, we were getting milk delivered to our home each morning in a metal box on the back porch. Then Zayre and Venture came and went. then there was a K-Mart... that was bought by Wal-Mart which are all gone today...along with the mom and pop shops that they put out of business. One thing is certain...nothing ever stays the same, and you can never go home.

[@1tsar]

The video is nicely done, but this mansion is pretty plain compared to many other mansions built during the golden age! Not say that it isn't built on a grand scale,just the design and layout is pretty awkward. it just lacks the WOW factor, like the Biltmore estate, Whitemarsh and Lynnewood Hall, Rough Point, The Breakers, Rosecliff, etc... give. The interiors are nice, but I just LOVE!!!! That foyer with the ascending staircase, for me that is just magnificent !!! all in all, if I had to c

[@garrengroom3831]

Each frame moved along too fast to fully enjoy this once grand estate. ☹

[@yysul]

AMAZING

[@kaymelton8894]

Great pictures but it goes too fast for you to drink it in and read the descriptions too!

[@susanmonks184]

Yes thats true. I had to keep on pausing to read the script.

[@JohnNozum]

I enjoyed your house tour here! You also seem to have a taste for GOOD music! Needless to say, your video is much more exciting than watching Jeopardy or football on TV, or your "money" back! Your video was interesting! May God's peace be with ya--in the name of JESUS! From John Nozum

[@catghost7]

Where are the orginal furnishings?

[@1940limited]

Did all the fireplaces work? It must have been a chore to get the firewood to all of them and keep them going if one so desired.

[@LaDivinaLover]

They’re all gas and used to have “wooden” inserts made of some sort of stone. Woolworth was far ahead of his time.

[@cproducer]

For more on Winfield Hall and other Long Island Gold Coast Mansions visit oldlongislandDOTcom.

[@texas1949]

Poor Barbara.

[@cproducer]

I've read that book sometime ago, - sad story. I recently was reminded that she is intombed with FW at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx in his Egyptian themed mausoleum.

[@cproducer]

@jasonmoore1900 No - Resident Evil Spenser mansion is here - Lindstedt Palace Potsdam Brandenburg Germany

[@Rockierambo1]

Wonder when the house was sold in 1925 did all the furnishings and paintings,etc. go with the new owner?

[@eugeniovazquez1790]

pobre niña rica

[@Emislay]

I would love to live there

[@jasonmoore1900]

this has to be the basis of the spenser mansion off of resident evil

[@celedominguestoledo]

Can you ensure that when buying a place so old, I would have no problems with ghosts?

[@ucebuflash]

I went to the Woolworth Estate once....they threw me out....they said they didn't have any 'batteries or sellotape'

[@tee2701]

Is this place haunted?

[@1life744]

Supposedly YES

[@dbmgna3951]

Does the Catholic Church still own it?

[@cproducer]

The church never owned property.

[@dbmgna3951]

cproducer they leased then...friends of ours used a room for an event decades ago..,it is from them I was told this.

[@kareemebanks3785]

the taxes may be over 500k a year

[@smorgasbordtv4092]

None of this matters Woolworth only lived there for 2 years. I prefer to be with Jesus than have all this.

[@Milton754]

Woolworth may be with Jesus and had all that.

[@1940limited]

I never understood why he lived the such a sort time.

[@michaelgarcia2024]

Then why in the hell were you watching this? Stay out of here and take your fairytale beliefs with you, lol!

[@hhjames9139]

So go already

[@LaDivinaLover]

I’d rather live there than with Jesus. For all I know he may have horrid esthetic tastes.

[@vincentvargas6224]

It would cost millions just to get it back to livible condition.

[@ronjacobs-young6886]

A nickel and dime compared to others of the time.

[@lynneh9744]

Music far too overpoweringly 'rousing' for viewing the actual building rooms and gardens etc. ; it detracts from the visuals. Sadly, I had to give up and couldn't watch any of these three videos.

[@anya40]

This is the only house of its size and history that I actually do not like at all. The outside looks like a huge federal building. The inside is just meh, maybe even ugly to me. I do appreciate it's history and well, who didn't love Woolworths, but I expected much more than I saw.

[@lareinadiondra6027]

obviously they dropped a ton of cash building this place house but I still it kind of boxy and unattractive personally.

[@RoseSharon7777]

Pretty vulgar.