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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.

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.

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.

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



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