Built for George Fisher Baker Jr. by architects Walker & Gillette. According to SPLIA "it is perhaps the most traditional in plan and scale of all the firm's Georgian Revival designs."
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| GATE ENTRANCE AND EASTERLY COTTAGE JUNE 1914 |
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| ENTRANCE GATE APRIL 1914 |
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| ENTRANCE GATE JUNE 1914 |
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| DRIVE TOWARDS ENTRANCE NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| DRIVE TOWARDS ENTRANCE MAY 1914 |
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| DRIVE TOWARDS ENTRANCE JUNE 1914 |
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| ENTRANCE GATE JUNE 1914 |
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| DRIVEWAY FROM ENTRANCE NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| DRIVEWAY FROM ENTRANCE JUNE 1914 |
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| WESTERLY COTTAGE AND GARAGE NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| WESTERLY COTTAGE AND GARAGE JUNE 1914 |
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| EASTERLY COTTAGE NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| FROM DRIVE ACROSS VEGETABLE GARDEN TO MR. ALDRED'S JANUARY 1914 |
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| FROM DRIVE ACROSS VEGETABLE GARDEN TO MR. ALDRED'S JUNE 1914 |
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| SERVICE ENTRANCE FROM DRIVE JANUARY 1914 |
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| SERVICE ENTRANCE FROM DRIVE JUNE 1914 |
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| SOUTH END OF GARDEN BANK FROM DRIVE JANUARY 1914 |
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| SOUTH END OF GARDEN BANK FROM DRIVE JUNE 1914 |
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| VEGETABLE GARDEN ENTRANCE MAY 1914 |
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| SOUTH FRONT OF HOUSE NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| VIEW OF GARDEN WALL AND EMBANKMENT NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| VIEW OF HOUSE FROM SERVICE YARD NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| SOUTH FRONT OF HOUSE DECEMBER 1913 |
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| SOUTH FRONT OF HOUSE JUNE 1914 |
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| FROM ENTRANCE ARCH DOWN DRIVE JANUARY 1914 |
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| FROM ENTRANCE ARCH DOWN DRIVE JUNE 1914 |
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| ENTRANCE ARCH APRIL 1914 |
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| ENTRANCE ARCH JUNE 1914 |
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| ENTRANCE ARCHWAY FROM THE DRIVE JUNE 1914 |
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| SERVICE WING FROM CARRIAGE TURN JANUARY 1914 |
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| SERVICE WING FROM CARRIAGE TURN JANUARY 1914 |
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| SERVICE WING FROM CARRIAGE TURN JUNE 1914 |
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| FRONT TURN AROUND APRIL 1914 |
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| NORTH SIDE OF HOUSE JUNE 1914 |
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| PATH TO TERRACE APRIL 1913 |
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| PATH TO TERRACE JUNE 1914 |
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| BASE OP CARRIAGE TURN WALL NORTH FROM THE SERVICE STEPS JANUARY 1914 |
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| SOUTH SIDE OF HOUSE AND GARDEN FROM ALDRED'S NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| WEST END OF HOUSE FROM TERRACE LOOKING NORTH JANUARY 1914 |
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| WEST END OF HOUSE FROM TERRACE LOOKING NORTH JUNE 1914 |
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| HOUSE AND GARDEN FROM WEST SIDE OF GARDEN NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| HOUSE FROM GARDEN DECEMBER 1913 |
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| SOUTH SIDE OF HOUSE FROM GARDEN APRIL 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN SPRING 1917 |
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| OLD APPLE TREE SOUTH SIDE FROM LAWN APRIL 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| HOUSE FROM GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN SPRING 1917 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN SPRING 1917 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN DECEMBER 1914 |
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| PATH LEADING FROM GARDEN DECEMBER 1913 |
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| PATH LEADING FROM GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| GARDEN DETAIL JUNE 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN APRIL 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN APRIL 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN SPRING 1917 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| FORMAL GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| LAWN AND BENCH JUNE 1914 |
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| SOUTH GARDEN WALL AND THE POOL DECEMBER 1913 |
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| SOUTH GARDEN WALL AND POOL JUNE 1914 |
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| POOL JUNE 1917 |
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| POOL AND GARDEN HOUSES JUNE 1914 |
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| POOL JUNE 1917 |
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| POOL AND GARDEN HOUSES JUNE 1914 |
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| PATH WEST OF GARDEN JUNE 1914 |
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| AIGLON PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION 1920'S |
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| PATH TO SOUND NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| PATH TO SOUND JUNE 1914 |
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| PATH TO PIER APRIL 1914 |
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| PATH TO PIER JUNE 1914 |
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| PROPOSED LOCATION FOR DOCK JANUARY 1914 |
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| PATH TO BOAT FLOAT JUNE 1914 |
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| BEACH AND PIER JUNE 1914 |
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| PIER JUNE 1914 |
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| BEACH FRONT JUNE 1914 |
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| PATH TO BEACH |
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| VIEW OF BEACH FROM CASINO AT "PEACOCK POINT" JUNE 1914 |
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| WOODLAND POND NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| WOODLAND POND NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| WOODLAND POND JUNE 1914 |
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| GROVE NOVEMBER 1913 |
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| GROVE JUNE 1914 |
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| GROVE JUNE 1914 |
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| "VIKINGS COVE" STONY BROOK AERIAL DIGITAL COLLECTION 1947 |
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| Portrait of Edith Kane Baker astride a dappled grey hunter. Sir Alfred Munnings (British, 1878–1959) |
George married Edith Beavoort Kane in 1911. In 1923 his net worth was estimated to be upwards of $300 million.
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| Duchess of Windsor and Edith Kane Baker. |
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| Ann and Bill Woodward. |
On October 1955, the Duchess of Windsor was the guest of honor at "Vikings Cove", along with Ann and Bill Woodward. That night Mrs. Woodward mistook her husband for a prowler and shot him twice, killing him instantly.
Little Viking, Viking I and Viking II - Great Yachts of Long Island's North Shore By Robert B. MacKay
In 1906 Architect A. Stewart Walker married Sybil Kane, sister of Edith Brevoort Kane Baker.