Augustus N. Allen

The property, located directly across Main Street from Mrs. Sage's then summer home, cost $10,000, at the time the highest price ever paid for a piece of real estate in Sag Harbor.

A winding marble staircase leads up to this room that is crowned by a brick, copper and stained glass dome rising 60 feet (18 m) above the ground.

The dome, constructed by the R. Guastavino Company, is one of the more than 1,000 they built, including those at the library of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.[1] Charles W. Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, later AlliedSignal, acquired a number of contiguous farms in 1912 and created a 40-acre (160,000 m2) estate with formal gardens in West Orange, New Jersey.

In the 1920s, Nichols set out to build his country estate, preferring the Norman style of architecture from the south of England and the north of France.

He hired Allen as his architect and the two toured Europe to seek out Norman style buildings and designed Pleasantdale Chateau.

Pleasantdale Chateau stands today at 757 Eagle Rock Avenue as an example of a French Normandy manor house, and serves as a retreat, catering and conference facility.

Campbell commissioned Allen, to design his office, transforming the space into a 13th-century Florentine palace with a hand-painted timbered ceiling and leaded windows.

Allen designed this bright, polychromed tile facade in 1925 for a furniture and decoration company that played an unusual part in the development of this section of Park Avenue.

Today, the building is home to many law firms, as well as the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and the Park Avenue Liquor Shop, which dates back to 1934.

It is now a budget hotel, but is ideally located for tourists, near the Empire State Building and convenient to Penn Station and Grand Central.

The building is also home to Latham Properties, a full-service real estate firm in existence since 1979 that was active in purchasing hotels in Manhattan and South Beach in the mid 1980s and early 1990s.