"Inisfada" - North Hills, New York (Pt. 3)

Part I on the history of "Inisfada" can be viewed here and part II here

Courtesy of History Center at the Manhasset Public Library (n.d.)

After the estate's public days had ceased, another sale was held by Capo Auction in November 2013 to sell off the remaining few pieces of value that were kept by the Jesuits. It raised $50,000 for Fordham University. In an attempt to repurpose the former organ, the Organ Clearing House of Boston was retained for for a two-week intensive dismantling, but after a few years of lying in storage, the parts were disposed of in April 2019.

"Inisfada" - North Hills, New York (Pt. 2)

Part I on the history of "Inisfada" can be viewed here and part III here

"Inisfada" - North Hills, New York (Pt. 1)

"Inisfada" was designed c. 1916 in the Tudor Revival/Jacobean style by John T. Windrim on 300 acres of land as a summer home (from May through October) for Nicholas Frederick Brady. Brady had served as chairman of the New York Edison Co., and a director at Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Westinghouse Electric, National City Bank, Union Carbide and Carbon, et al. After his father, Anthony Brady, stepped down from the New York Gas, Electric Light, Heat, & Power Company, Nicholas became vice president of the Edison Electric Illumination Company and president of the New York Edison Company. He later became president of the New York Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. He was also a member of the Lido Golf Club and the Oakland Golf Club of Bayside. At only 34 years old, he was one of the youngest men in America to be in charge of a major corporation. If that was not enough, Brady married Geniveve Garvan in August, 1906. Ten years later they decided to build a country estate and called upon John Torrey Windrim to design a country home that could emulate--if not rival--those in Europe as a 10th anniversary gift to Geniveve.