The Mackay Estate Gate Lodge, designed in 1899 and built between 1900 and 1902, served as the entrance to Clarence H. Mackay’s expansive Gilded Age estate. Mackay was a prominent financier and industrialist.
The Gate Lodge, styled as a Tudor Revival, features intricate stonework, half-timbered framing, and a slate roof. It was listed on the New York State and National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The Village of East Hills acquired the Gate Lodge from a property developer in 2021 when the surrounding land was subdivided.
In January 2022, the Roslyn Landmark Society began restoration efforts on the Mackay Estate Gate Lodge in partnership with the Village of East Hills to return the site to its 1902 appearance and develop the building into a history resource center.
In December 2023, the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation awarded the Roslyn Landmark Society generous grant funding for the restoration of the structure’s windows and doors. While this important work is underway, the Gate Lodge’s window openings have been temporarily covered with plywood.
Throughout the 2023-2024 school year, Roslyn Landmark Society’s Gardiner Young Scholars intern, Isabella Santos, spearheaded the collaborative “Mackay Estate Gate Lodge Art Windows Project.”
During the initiative, Isabella enlisted Roslyn High School 2 Art Club students to help create decorative window coverings to be placed over the plywood until the newly fabricated windows can be installed in fall 2024.
To celebrate the completion of this innovative student art project and the organization’s partnership with Roslyn High School, the Roslyn Landmark Society will hold a “Window Art Unveiling Ceremony” on Thursday, June 13 at 3:30 PM at the Mackay Estate Gate Lodge on Harbor Hill Road in East Hills, New York.
During the ceremony, representatives from the Roslyn Landmark Society, Mayor Michael Koblenz of the Village of East Hills, and Kathryn Curran, executive director of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, will recognize the students’ exceptional work creating temporary art panels for the Mackay Estate Gate Lodge window openings over the course of the school year and present awards to a student scholarship recipient and Roslyn Landmark Society’s 2023 Gardiner Young Scholar, Isabella Santos.
This is a free event for the public and is expected to last approximately one hour. Light refreshments will be served. Parking is available on Mimosa Drive.
