Harbor Hill, portrait of a house, Richard Guy Wilson
Type
Label
Harbor Hill, portrait of a house, Richard Guy Wilson
Language
eng
resource.accompanyingMatter
technical information on music
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Harbor Hill
Medium
electronic resource
Responsibility statement
Richard Guy Wilson
Sub title
portrait of a house
Summary
A "palace" ruled by a "queen," Harbor Hill in Roslyn, Long Island, was commissioned by the beautiful and imperious Katherine Duer Mackay, wife of one of the country's wealthiest men, to be an estate almost without equal in the entire country. The mansion, along with its magnificent furnishings, art, gardens, and the owners' hubris, striving, and ultimate failure are the center of this saga. An extravagant product of the desire for social acceptance, the portrait covers old versus new wealth, religious differences over the building of a church, and art collecting, as well as the many people involved, from the architects, builders, and workers to the servants and staff who ran the house and gardens. Harbor Hill's story includes elements of farce and tragedy; in a sense it is an American portrait
Target audience
adult
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Classification
Contributor
Creator
Subject
- Roslyn (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
- Harbor Hill (Roslyn, N.Y. : Building)
- Mackay, Clarence H., Clarence Hungerford, 1874-1938 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
- White, Stanford, 1853-1906
- Mackay, Katherine Duer, 1880-1930 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
- Mansions -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
Content
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor2
- Creator1
- Subject7
- Roslyn (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Lost architecture -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
- Harbor Hill (Roslyn, N.Y. : Building)
- Mackay, Clarence H., Clarence Hungerford, 1874-1938 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
- White, Stanford, 1853-1906
- Mackay, Katherine Duer, 1880-1930 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
- Mansions -- New York (State) -- Roslyn
- Content1