Cedarmere-Clayton Estates
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Cedarmere-Clayton Estates
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Front elevation of Cedarmere, 2016
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| Location | Roslyn Harbor, NY |
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| Nearest city | Glen Cove |
| Coordinates | 40°48′40″N 73°38′45″W / 40.81111°N 73.64583°WCoordinates: 40°48′40″N 73°38′45″W / 40.81111°N 73.64583°W |
| Area | 172 acres (69 ha) |
| Built | 1843, 1899 |
| Architect | Ogden Codman, Jr., others |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Gothic Revival |
| MPS | Historic and Architectural Resources of Roslyn Harbor |
| NRHP Reference # | 86002634 |
| Added to NRHP | 1986 |
The Cedarmere-Clayton Estates are located in Roslyn Harbor, New York, United States, listed jointly on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Cedarmere, the smaller of the two, is William Cullen Bryant's estate, located on the west side of Bryant Avenue overlooking Hempstead Harbor, now a historic house museum. The grounds are open to the public. The house is currently undergoing interior renovation. Clayton, the bulk of the property, is the large landscaped Bryce/Frick estate, now home to the Nassau County Museum of Art. The two combined properties, with input from several notable architects, illustrate the development of estates on the North Shore of Long Island over a period of nearly a century.
Bryant originally owned almost the entire property. Fifteen years after Bryant's death, in 1893, Lloyd Bryce bought the largely undeveloped inland portion of the estate and hired Ogden Codman, Jr. to design a mansion for it. In 1919, the dying Henry Clay Frick purchased the estate for his son Childs, who, after renovating it and expanding it, lived there with his family until his 1965 death. Four years later, it was turned over to the county for use as a museum.
All of Cedarmere and most of Clayton were part of Bryant's original purchase. After his descendants sold all but the area around Cedarmere to the Bryces, they and the Fricks made some other additions as well.
Cedarmere is located behind a high stone wall on a 7 acre (4 ha) parcel along Bryant Ave., Roslyn Harbor, with two small ponds and a landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Its main house is a three-bay, 2 1⁄2-story main block with two wings: a two-story multi-bay structure to the east and a smaller, single-story section to the north. All are covered in slate gambrel roofs, fenestrated with trimmed gabled dormers. Window shapes vary throughout the facades. The house is faced with stucco, except for the visible stone foundation. A green glass-and-metal conservatory protrudes from the front, and a porch wraps around all but the north side.
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