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4 unusual facts about Shadow Brook Farm Historic District


Shadow Brook Farm Historic District

Samuel Cutler Ward in 1844 purchased land on the slopes of Baldhead and built a mansion near the site of what was to become Shadowbrook.

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The wife of a Vanderbilt family member leased the property briefly in 1916 following her husband's death, and the mansion was sold in 1917 by Potter's debtors to Andrew Carnegie for $300,000.

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In 1956 Francis X. Shea, a priest who had trained at Shadowbrook, wrote an account of the Shadowbrook mansion's history and its destruction which was published posthumously in 2009 by the Society of Jesus.

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Andrew Carnegie acquired Shadowbrook in 1917 and died there in 1919.



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