page_title: Cornelius H. DeLamater
section_title: Eaton's Neck Estate
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelius H. DeLamater / Eaton's Neck Estate
caption_attribution_description: English: Exterior front of C.H. DeLamater's "Vermland" mansion built on Eaton's Neck in 1865. Today it is known as "The Bevin House". In 1942 the house was rented for several weeks by aviator-writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and was one of the locations where he wrote The Little Prince. Camera location40°&#160;56′&#160;04.11″&#160;N, 73°&#160;22′&#160;43.61″&#160;W&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: Cornelius Henry DeLamater was an industrialist who owned DeLamater Iron Works in New York City. The steam boilers and machinery for the ironclad USS Monitor were built in DeLamater's foundry during the Civil War. Swedish marine engineer and inventor John Ericsson considered DeLamater his closest, most intimate friend.
context_section_description: DeLamater's leisure moments were spent at Beacon Farm on Eatons Neck, Long Island, New York, where he had 1,250 acres (5.1 km²) of choice land on the North Shore of Long Island, and the "finest blooded stock in America" as described by The New York Times. The DeLamater Estate included everything beyond what is today #325 Asharoken Avenue.  This includes the upper half of Asharoken Beach, the Morgan Estate, the Eaton Harbors or Two Acre Zone of Eaton's Neck, and the Bevin Road peninsula in Asharoken.  The DeLamater Mansion still stands today on the Eatons Neck peninsula, and was rented in 1942 by French author Antoine de Saint Exupéry who wrote The Little Prince while at the mansion.  The children and grandchildren of DeLamater also built mansions over time in Eaton's Neck and Asharoken that still stand today, namely "The Point", "The Nest", "The Crest", and "The Hill".  The DeLamaters also renovated two existing colonial structures for family estates, namely "Cherry Lawn" and "Oak Leaf".
caption: DeLamater-Bevin Mansion
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