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Doing a historic tour of New York? Be sure to include the famous historic homes on Long Island. This definitive guide to historic Long Island homes will give you a list of the top places to visit to learn the history of New York. Get in touch with the past when you visit historic Long Island homes.
One of the Top Famous Homes to Visit on Long Island!
One of the most interesting historic homes on Long Island, Sagamore Hill has home to President Theodore Roosevelt from 1885 until his death in 1919. Today, visitors can see this famous house by guided tour and view many of the original furniture pieces and decorations that were in the house during the Roosevelt family's residence.
Tickets for guided tours can be purchased at the Visitor Center and Bookstore. The grounds of Sagamore hill are open every day from sunrise to sunset and visitors can enjoy wandering the 83 acres of forest, meadow, salt marsh and beach that make up the surrounding areas.
A Palace of the Gilded Age!
Constructed in the Spanish Revival style, this Long Island historic house was built in the early 1900s for the affluent Vanderbilt family. The twenty-four rooms of the mansion are filled with historic items and exhibits that show off the eclectic ethnographic collections of William K. Vanderbilt II. When you take a tour you can view antique decorations, photos, and furniture. See the courtyard, living quarters and serving quarters of the mansion as you learn about life in the mid 1930s on Long Island's Gold Coast.
Be sure to attend one of the "living history" tours offered on weekends from Memorial Day through Labor Day where you will be taken around the house by guides dressed in 1930s style and meet "members" of the Vanderbilt family onetime owners of this top Long Island historic homes. The grounds of the mansion are also home to a marine museum, natural history habitats and much more that will fascinate and delight history lovers.
