New York Institute of Technology Mansion, on the National Register of Historic Places, was built for Alfred I. Du Pont who commissioned Carrere & Hastings in 1916 to design this neo-Georgian estate. The house and landscaping embody the extravagance of a by-gone Gilded Age. It passed through the Phipps and Guest families before becoming a part of NYIT’s Old Westbury campus in 1972 where it has since been used as an event center. Beginning in 2010, with funding from a Save America’s Treasures Grant, RRA helped restore crumbling garden walls and the grand eastern staircase. In an unusual twist, RRA was able to source marble from the same quarry that had been salvaged from a NYC mansion constructed for the Phipps family in 1905. The marble pieces were reworked almost 100 years later and brought back to life in the restoration. Currently, RRA is again working with Cameron Engineering Associates in the continued preservation, rehabilitation and restoration of the facade, roof, and gardens.
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