Schmidlapp-Humes Estate Historic District
Village of Mill Neck, Nassau County, New York
Marker Inscription
SCHMIDLAPP-HUMES ESTATE HISTORIC DISTRICT HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IN 2020 BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Erected by William G. Pomeroy Foundation
The Story
This plaque marks a historic district on Long Island's North Shore recognized by the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. The estate takes its name from the families associated with it during the era of grand country estates that spread across Nassau County — the stretch of shoreline that became known as the 'Gold Coast,' where industrial and financial fortunes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were poured into sprawling manor houses, formal gardens, and landscaped grounds. Listing on the National Register affirms that the property's architecture and setting retain enough integrity to tell that story of American wealth and country living.
Why it matters
Long Island's Gold Coast estates are a vivid record of Gilded Age and early-twentieth-century American affluence, and preserving one on the National Register keeps a tangible piece of that social and architectural history from being lost to development.
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