she opened Hempstead House to refugee children from Europe ranging in age from 13 months to 10 years old. Seventy-five children stayed for a year. In 1942, Florence donated the estate to the ...

In July 2024, I paid $15 to park at Sands Point Preserve and then another $10 to take a guided tour of Hempstead House. Here's what it was like inside the 112-year-old mansion and what I learned ...

William Henry Matthews died last week in the little house out on Hempstead Plains ... He was eighty-two years old. The finding of many thousands of dollars in the hut of Miser Janes after his ...