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Coindre Hall

1939 establishments in New York (state)Boarding schools in New York (state)Châteauesque architecture in the United StatesDefunct schools in New York (state)Educational institutions established in 1939
Houses in Suffolk County, New YorkHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)Huntington, New YorkMansions of Gold Coast, Long IslandNational Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York
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Coindre Hall, originally called West Neck Farm, is a 40-room, 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m2) mansion in the style of a medieval French château completed in 1912 for pharmaceutical magnate George McKesson Brown. Coindre Hall sits on 33 acres (13 ha) of rolling land overlooking Huntington Harbor, near the Long Island Sound.

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Coindre Hall
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