Oheka Castle was built in the 1910s by philanthropist and investment financier Otto Herman Kahn. The estate is located on the highest point of Long Island in Cold Spring Harbor. This is the second largest private home in the United States with 127 rooms.
The estate has a golf course, one of the largest private greenhouse complexes in America and a huge French garden in front of the mansion. In the 1920s, Kahn used the estate to host extravagant parties, entertain the crowned ladies, heads of state and Hollywood stars.
After the death of Kahn in 1934, the estate began to "walk hand in hand." It was used for various purposes. Over the years, the mansion burned about a hundred times and was almost completely destroyed.
Oheka Castle illustrates the estates of the Jazz Age, also known as the “roaring 20’s” (roaring twenties) and it was partly the prototype of the estate of Gatsby in the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald.
In 1984, the surviving mansion for $ 1.5 million was bought by businessman Gary Melius. Now the estate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, and also on the list of Historic Hotels across America !
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