page_title: DuPont-Guest Estate
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: DuPont-Guest Estate / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The DeSeversky Mansion on the Old Westbury Campus of the New York Institute of Technology.
context_page_description: The DuPont-Guest Estate, now known as the NYIT de Seversky Mansion, is a historic estate located at Brookville in Nassau County, New York. Since 1972, it has been part of the Old Westbury campus of the New York Institute of Technology.
context_section_description: The home, originally called "White Eagle", was built between 1916 and 1918 for Alicia Heyward (née Bradford) Maddox, the second wife of Alfred I. du Pont and daughter of Judge Edward Bradford.  It was designed by the architectural firm of Carrère and Hastings in the Georgian Revival style and the interiors were designed by Charles of London.  The residence is two stories plus a basement level, with a red brick façade, white marble and limestone embellishments, and a gabled, slate roof. Alicia du Pont died in January 1920 before the home was finished.
  The estate consists of the residence, surrounding landscaping, and garage. It adjoined Harbor Hill, the country seat of Clarence Mackay (to the north), and the home of Harry Payne Whitney (who married Gertrude Vanderbilt) (to the south).  It was near to the "homes of many of America's leading financiers, including Nicholas F. Brady, Otto H. Kahn, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas H. Hitchcock, Elbert H. Gary and Ormond G. Smith."
caption: East façade of the house
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