The latest profile posted on roslynlandmarks.org features the beautiful Belrose mansion and its 32-acre Roslyn Heights property owned from 1912 to 1940 by Solomon and Bella Rosenbaum. The profile features rare images provided by the Rosenbaum Family,the Bryant Library Local History Collection and Howard Kroplick.
The Belrose property would later become the Roslyn Park Hospital (1946-1960) and then the Long Island Doctors Hospital (1961-1973). The property is now the site of the Sunharbor Manor.
Photos courtesy of the Rosenbaum Family
Documents and photos courtesy of the Bryant Library Local History Collection
Then & Now by Howard Kroplick
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The same year, 1912, that Belrose was built, so was ‘Sunnybrook’, the Smithtown home designed by Gustav Stickley for Vanderbilt Cup Race five-time starter Fred Wagner, offering a comp for why today’s surviving National Register homes like Fred’s and the nearby NR (2021) Eligible 1907 country house of Edmund Wetmore, Esq., need to be saved in Smithtown Township. The Society of Architectural Historians has written a letter of concern to that effect for the home of Wetmore, America’s foremost patent attorney whose legacy included defense of Wagner’s friend Henry Ford’s patent for the gasoline powered engine, allowing Ford to manufacture autos for everyday life. Sadly, like Belrose, Oakwell the Smithtown home of Wagner’s colleague A.R. Pardington, is long gone, leaving behind space for a road sign to mark the home of A.R., engineer of the Motor Parkway and Lincoln Highway, who like Wagner was a proponent of the ‘good roads’ movement. Hope there’s a sign on the former Belrose property to remember the Rosenbaum family, and picture their once beautiful home, so residents at the site and the public, can appreciate the Rosenbaum’s dedication to medicine and fine works of architecture!