Meadowhill

Built in 1909, for Elverton R. Chapman (1848-1916) and his third wife, the widowed Mrs Lucille (Faber) Nelson. In the previous year, Chapman, purchased 30-acres of the Lauzan farm at the corner of Willets and Middle Neck Roads on which he built his country retreat - he already had a townhouse in Manhattan and a winter home in Florida. His third wife, Lucille, was the archetypal "wicked stepmother" who banished his daughters to wander alone through the wealthy watering holes of Europe (there could be worse fates!), never to return home. The colorful character that was their father - and who'd famously taken a bullet for some Senators and done a spell in jail albeit rather luxuriously - did not enjoy the house for long and was buried in 1916....