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Table of Contents Absence of Photographs . iv Acknowledgments . iv Factors Applicable to Usage . v Surname Entries A – Z . 1 Appendices: Architects . 651 Civic Activists . 670 Estate Names . 681 Landscape Architects . 691 Maiden Names . 697 Occupations . 733 Rehabilitative Secondary Uses of Surviving Estate Houses . 754 Statesmen and Diplomats Who Resided in East Hampton . 755 Village Locations of Estates . 758 Biographical Sources Consulted . 768 Maps Consulted for Estate Locations . 769 About the Authors . 770 Baxter, George White (1855-1929) Occupation(s): politician - governor, Territory of Wyoming, 1886 capitalist - established large cattle ranches near Fort Washakie, Colorado; general manager, Western Union Beef Co.; president and general manager, North American Cattle Co.; president and general manager, Frontier Land and Cattle Co. Civic Activism: a founder, Society of Indian Wars; suffrage* Marriage(s): 1880-1929 – Margaret White McGhee (1858-1942) Address: Lee Avenue, East Hampton Name of estate: Cherokee Cottage Year of construction: 1890 Style of architecture: Shingle Architect(s): Landscape architect(s): Builder: John Aldrich House extant: yes Historical notes: The house, originally located at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Pudding Hill Lane, was built by Mrs. William Draper. It was later owned by Baxter, who moved it to its present location in 1919. The Long Island Society Register, 1929 lists George White and Margaret W. McGhee Baxter as residing at Cherokee Cottage in East Hampton. He was the son of John and Orra Alexander Baxter of Henderson, NC. Margaret White McGhee Baxter was the daughter of Charles McClung and Cornelia Humes White McGhee of Knoxville, TN. George White and Margaret White McGhee Baxter’s daughter Cornelia married Hugh Tevis, Sr. of San Francisco and, later, Evelyn Toulmin of London, England. Their daughter Margaret married Albert Volney Foster and resided in Lake Forest, IL. Their daughter Katherine married Russell Burrage of Boston, MA. Their daughter Eleanor married Chauncey Perry Beadleston with whom she resided in Hewlett Bay Park. Eleanor later married James Clarke Milholland of Hewlett Harbor. [See Spinzia, Long Island’s Prominent Families in the Town of Hempstead – Beadleston and Milholland entries.] Their son Charles married Marcella Virginia Andrews, the daughter of Matthew Andrews of Cleveland, OH. *Baxter assisted in framing the constitution under which Wyoming was admitted into statehood. He authored the clause that extended suffrage to women. [For other Long Islanders involved in the suffrage movement see Raymond E. Spinzia, “Winning the Franchise: Long Island Activists in the Fight for Woman’s Suffrage and Their Opponents, Long Island’s Anti- Suffragists.” wwwspinzialongislandestates.com.] [For information about the Baxters’ Greenvale residence, see Spinzia, Long Island’s Prominent North Shore Families, vol. I – Baxter entry.] In 1940 Miss Martha Arrington Burke, the sister of Mrs. Clarence F. Alcott of East Hampton, purchased Cherokee Cottage from Mrs. Baxter. [The New York Times May 6, 1940, p. 19.] Beale, Phelan, Sr. (1881-1956) Occupation(s): attorney - partner, Bouvier, Caffey, and Beale (later, Bouvier and Beale) Civic Activism: president, New York Southern Society; treasurer, University of the South, Sewanee, TN; member, executive committee, East Hampton Associates Marriage(s): M/1 – 1917-div. 1946 – Edith Ewing Bouvier (1895-1977) M/2 – 1947-1956 – Dorothy D. Durham (1906-1975) Address: 3 West End Avenue, East Hampton Name of estate: Grey Gardens Year of construction: 1897 Style of architecture: Shingle Architect(s): Joseph Greenleaf Thorp designed the house (for F. S, Phillips) Eugene Lawrence Futterman, 1980 alterations (for Bradlee) Landscape architect(s): Anna Park Gilman Hill designed her own gardens, with Ruth Dean, 1914 Victoria Fensterer, 1985- (for Bradlee) Builder: George A. Eldredge House extant: yes* Nassau County Museum Collection has photographs of the estate. Historical notes: The house was built by Fleming Stanhope Phillips. In 1913 it was sold to Robert Carmer Hill, who named it Grey Gardens. In 1924 Hill sold the house to Beale, who continued to call it Grey Gardens. As part of his divorce settlement, Beale deeded the house to his wife Edith. The Social Register Summer 1921 lists Phelan and Edith E. Bouvier Beale as residing in East Hampton. He was the son of Jesse Drew and Caroline Blount Phelan Beale, Jr. of Chattanooga, TN. Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale was the daughter of John Vernou and Maude Francis Sergeant Bouvier, Jr. of Little House and Lasata in East Hampton. Edith’s brother William married Emma Louise Stone, who resided in Southampton. [See Spinzia, Long Island’s Prominent Families in the Town of Southampton – Bouvier entry.] Her sister Maude married John Ethelbert Davis and resided in Ridgefield, CT. Her sister Michelle married Henry Clarkson Scott, Sr. with whom she resided in Woodmere and, later, Harrington Putnam with whom she resided in East Hampton. [See Spinzia, Long Island’s Prominent Families in the Town of Hempstead – Scott entry.] Her brother John Vernou Bouvier III, who resided at Rowdy Hall and, later, at Little House in East Hampton, married Janet Norton Lee. Phelan and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Sr.’s daughter Edith, who resided at Grey Gardens with her mother, did not marry. Their son Bouvier Beale, Sr. married Katharine Ridgely Jones, the daughter of Nicholas Ridgely and Katharine Black Jones of Edgewood in Glen Cove, and resided in Glen Cove. [See Spinzia, Long Island’s Prominent North Shore Families, vol. I – Beale and Jones entries.] Their son Phelan Beale, Jr. married Roselia Ramsey and resided in Oklahoma City, OK. The Beales’ daughter Edith sold the house in 1979 to Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee, Sr., who continued to call it Grey Gardens. Dorothy D. Durham Beale was the daughter of Dillard D. and Estelle Durham. *Alterations were made to the house c. 1972 and in 1980. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2017 the seven-bedroom, six-bath, 6,000-square-foot house and 1.7 acres were for sale. The asking price was $19.995 million. Bouvier, John Vernou, III (1891-1957) Occupation(s): financier independent stockbroker Marriage(s): 1928-1940 – Janet Norton Lee (1907-1989) - Civic Activism: director, Robert E. Lee Association Address: 111 Egypt Lane, East Hampton Name of estate: Rowdy Hall* Year of construction: Early- to mid-eighteenth century Style of architecture: Colonial Architect(s): Joseph Greenleaf Thorp, 1926 alterations (for Mrs. Hamlin) Landscape architect(s): House extant: yes Historical notes: The house was originally the Osborn family’s residence. It was later owned by David Huntting and then by his adopted daughter Annie who utilized it as a boarding house. In 1895 the house was moved from Main Street to Gay Lane. In 1925 it was purchased by Mrs. Mary Elkins Paxton Hamlin who moved it to Egypt Lane. [The East Hampton Star November 15, 1934, p. 5.] *Bouvier had a long-term lease on the house. John Vernou Bouvier III was the son of John Vernou and Maude Francis Sergeant Bouvier of Little House and Lasata in East Hampton. Janet Norton Lee Bouvier was the daughter of James Thomas and Margaret A. Merritt Lee of East Hampton. Janet later married Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr. and, subsequently, Bingham Willing Morris with whom she resided at Pra– Qua–Les in Southampton. [See Spinzia, Long Island’s Prominent Families in the Town of Southampton – Morris entry.] John Vernou and Janet Norton Lee Bouvier III’s daughter Jacqueline married President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and, subsequently, Aristotle Onassis. Their daughter Caroline (aka Lee) married Michael Temple Canfield, Prince Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill, and, subsequently, Herbert David Ross. John Vernou Bouvier III also had two illegitimate children, a son who died in an automobile accident in England and a daughter who was murdered while living in the Middle East. [David Heyman. A Woman Named Jackie. (New York: Carol Communications, 1989), p. 56.] By the 1930s Bouvier was residing at his parents’ former East Hampton residence Little House. In 1953 the house was purchased from Mrs. Hamlin by Robert Barnes who made alterations and repairs to it and, in 1954, sold the house to Henry Sanford Thorne. [The East Hampton Star November 26, 1953, p. 4, and June 17, 1954, p. 7.] In 2003 the house was listed for sale. The asking price was $2.25 million. Bradlee, Benjamin Crowninshield, Sr. (1921-2014) Occupation(s): publisher - a founder, New Hampshire Post; vice-president and director, The Washington Post* journalist - New Hampshire Post, The Washington Post, and Educational Exchange; Washington bureau chief, Newsweek; managing editor, The Washington Post* intelligence agent - United States Navy during World War II capitalist - director, Independent News and Media Group (foreign radio stations and cable telecoms and over 200 foreign newspapers and magazines) writer - A Special Grace, 1964; Conversations With Kennedy, 1975; A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures, 1995 Civic Activism: endowed chair at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; chairman of board, Historic St. Mary’s City Commission, St. Mary’s City, MD (Maryland’s first capital); trustee, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, MD; chairman of board, fund drive, Children’s Hospital, Washington, DC Marriage(s): M/1 – 1942-div. 1955 – Jean Saltonstall (1921-2011) M/2 – 1956-div. 1975 – Antoinette Eno Pinchot (1924-2011) - journalist - Vogue magazine M/3 – 1978-2014 – Sally Quinn (b. 1941) - journalist - The Washington Post, Washington, DC; The New York Times, NYC entertainers and associate professions - co-anchor, “CBS Morning News” writer - The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertainment, 1997; We’re Going to Make You a Star, 1975 (autobiography); Regrets Only, 1986; Finding Magic, 2017 Civic Activism: board vice-chair, fund drive, Children’s Hospital, Washington, DC Address: 3 West End Avenue, East Hampton Name of estate: Grey Gardens Year of construction: 1897 Style of architecture: Shingle Architect(s): Joseph Greenleaf Thorp designed the house (for F.