Delamater-Bevin Mansion

The Delamater-Bevin Mansion, also known as The Bevin House, is a historic 22-room Victorian mansion on the north shore of Long Island within the Incorporated Village of Asharoken, New York. The estate is on the Eatons Neck landmass on the edge of Duck Island Harbor, an inlet of Northport Bay, off Long Island Sound.

Delamater-Bevin Mansion
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Asharoken, New York
Coordinates	40°56′5″N 73°22′43″W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1867
Architectural style	Second Empire
MPS	Huntington Town MRA
NRHP reference No.	85002514[1]
Added to NRHP	September 26, 1985

History

The home was built by Cornelius Henry DeLamater in 1862 in the French Second Empire architectural style and was initially known as Vermland. DeLamater owned over 1,000 acres (4.0 km²) of Eaton's Neck and the DeLamater Iron Work in NYC, where W. 13th St meets the Hudson River. The turret, engines, and weaponry on the Ironclad "Monitor" were built by DeLamater's foundry under the direction of noted marine engineer John Ericsson. DeLamater named his summer estate "Vermland" after the Swedish province where Ericsson was born, as the two men were best of friends and inseparable. After DeLamater's death on February 7, 1889, his Eaton's Neck estate was inherited by his wife, Ruth Oakley Caller DeLamater, who died on December 7, 1894, leaving the estate to their daughter Laura DeLamater Bevin. Over time, the house gradually became known as "The Bevin House.^[2] Laura DeLamater Bevin died on March 4, 1920, and her son Sydney Bevin inherited the property.^[3]

During World War II, the exiled French writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry rented The Bevin House, where he wrote much of the well-known novel The Little Prince in late 1942.^{[4][5] [Note 1]} He lived there with Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and they hosted their common friend Denis de Rougemont.

Sydney Bevin died on May 29, 1960, and The Bevin House was sold to Charles William Foesell in 1964. In 1979, the estate was purchased by real estate developer Nikos Kefalidis, who commissioned an extensive restoration of the mansion.^[2] Kefalidis was killed in the crash of Swiss Air 111 on September 2, 1998.

The Delamater-Bevin Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[6]

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  Cornelius Henry DeLamater 1821–1889.
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  Rear of The Bevin House, showing its employees' wing.

See also

• The Little Prince