What Happened to the Frank Woolworth Mansion on Long Island? (Winfield Hall)
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- Mysteries, unsolved crimes and the occult make for a great story, but these are not words most people use to describe their homes. Today, we are exploring what some have called Long Island’s Most Haunted House, Winfield Hall.
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What Happened at the Most "Haunted" Mansion on Long Island? (Winfield Hall)
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Location: Long Island, New York
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My roommate swears our apartment is haunted, but I've lived there for 158 years and never saw a thing.
Ur the ghost
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I grew up in Glen Cove in the 1980’s and my mom worked at this mansion during that time (when it was leased by Pall Corporation). She often had to work late so I would be in the mansion with her after dark. She and her coworkers had told me about Mr. Woolworth’s daughters suicide and some alleged that they had seen her ghost or heard weird noises. I personally never heard or saw anything but there was definitely an eeriness I could feel when I would sneak off to wander around. Even still, I absolutely loved that place growing up and used to pretend it was mine. Lol. Thank you for the childhood flashback. 🙂
COOOOLL!!!!
Very cool!!
Fascinating story! Thanks for sharing it
was it good for hide n seek ?😬
@@margarita8442 I would occasionally hide from my mom and annoy her trying to find me but there weren’t any other kids to play with to make it really fun. Lol
This really needs to be a boutique hotel or a museum open to the public. These houses need to be shared, this was such a special time in history.
I remember the Woolworth stores. Fascinating to see how the founder lived.
We had Woolworths...& WT Grants... dime stores. I remember the very well.
Grant's closed 1976/Woolworths 1997.
There is an intact Woolworth's Store with still functioning big lunch counter in Bakersfield CA. Much of the store sells antiques, but that nostalgic lunch counter brings back memories.
Woolworth’s are still around in Australia, New Zealand, HK, Singapore & South Africa. Obviously the charm of the original stores no longer exists.
The story about the models in the home sounds like the plot to a B tier horror movie. Would love to see that made into a movie.
How could you build a house like this and not put in secret passages? I think Mr. Napoleon knew which way was up. When your that kind of rich you can think you are whoever you want! Great episode, love what you do!
I noticed there's a lot of "mysterious fires" pertaining to a lot of these homes.
What other fire are there?
Insurence maybe
It may have happened because of heritage designations: Owners cannot possibly afford to do anything with their property because of the myriad of heritage restrictions, so, sometimes the only way owners can actually sell or develop the land is for a mysterious fire to mysteriously and not at all provably happen. One way is for the owner who is blocked from developing is his selling it to an offshore buyer, and there are further buyers after that to muddy the waters, the property burns down, and a legitimate buyer buys from the offshore owner, now that the property can actually be developed.
I think it is called insurance.
@@jaybarrows2526 added with the supernatural...
I read Monica Randall's book "Winfield -- My Life in the Shadow of the Woolworths". Fascinating book. My favorite chapter was the one in which Ms. Randall told about she had F.W. Wooldworth's handwriting analyzed. It was very interesting to learn that handwriting analysis involves how people's writing deviates from the way they were taught to write, how a personal style of writing is developed.
Maybe someone else can add on here but wasn't Barbara Hutton, the many times married heiress, the granddaughter of F.W. Woolworth. That poor (though very wealthy) lady had such a sad life. The money doesn't seem to have done her much good.
I'm not surprised to learn of Egyptian elements in the decoration of the mansion. The Woolworth family mausoleum is built to resemble an Egyptian temple.
I enjoy the mansions of the past but I would avoid visiting Winfield. I wouldn't want to get involved with the negativity and darkness of the place.
Andrew Brendan yes, Barbara Woolworth Hutton was the granddaughter of Frank Winfield Woolworth
@@shoelover4007 I had forgotten that connection
Illuminati
@@mwdmwd9552 HELLO.
THE GIRL WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE WAS PROBABLY TURNED OUT BY ALL OF THE MALE GUESTS
THAT CAME TO VISIT OLD CRAZY WW
(MM 33?)
YEAH THAT'S HOW
THEY PROGRAM THE KIDDIES!
I live on Long Island! Like 40 min drive from this place. But my home is like only 2 mins from the Amityville horror house.
Wasn’t there a story about him throwing a party one evening, and on the same evening one of his daughters committed suicide, I think at the plaza hotel in the city, but anyway supposedly the same moment she did the deed, lighting came through the house during the party, struck the coat of arms above the fire place and cracked that daughters face in the carving. Probably not true but makes for another great story associated with the house.
This was cool, thank you! Maybe a sequel to this...showing what it looks like today, who owns it, etc?
If we can secure a tour we would love to show it on our channel!
The taxes on Long Island are crazy high. Over 200,000 a year in taxes, plus having to fix up the home. It may stay vacant for a long time. A Very interesting story on Woolworth.
I’ve been married for 32 years and when I was first married, I went to woolworths and bought sewing items for a sewing box. Still have most of it. Now I feel old.
I live on LI and I’ve heard of Hatchet Mary on Mt Misery, Cropsey on Staten Island, the abandoned asylum in king’s park, Creedmor, etc. but this one is new to me!
I've lived on Long Island my whole life and didn't even know there was a haunted house.
Woolworths was a very popular shop in the UK, certainly during the late 80s, part of my childhood, pick 'n' mixes and trying out the latest LP's
The mysterious fires & the secret passage ways really lend intrigue to this mysterious mansion!!! Back in it's prime it was certainly an opulent estate!!! Thanks for sharing another interesting video!!! 👍👍🙂
Not only beautiful but fascinating as well.
Thank You so much for these house videos.
Great vid. When I was much younger my two friends and I would hunt for these Gold Coast Mansions on Long Island. I wonder if there is a book about the experiences of staff working at these mansions. My friend's husband was a gardener for one of these places when it was privately owned. Also my grandfather was chauffer for the Gould family. But I was too young to ask questions. It is all very fascinating.
My childhood home was one of the Gould family’s summer cottages Owl’s Cote.
One of your better videos as it explores the weird side.
Well recall F.W. Woolworth stores. At opening of the Woolworth Building, he spoke of success by selling something everyone needed at a price everyone could afford. Have always been fascinated with granddaughter Barbara Hutton, whose father was a brother of E.F. HUTTON whose wife Marjorie Merriweather Post built Mar a Lago.
I miss Woolworth store, you could always find a great deal.. There are some stores around, especially in Europe.. And they still have great prices for great products..
In a hundred years, they’ll probably be making videos about the house of the founder of B&M Bargains or something…😂
Regardless of his various eccentricities, Woolworth’s was simply the best chain of stores in America, ever!
Really? I only remember outdated bins of folded clothes, old house dresses and a soda fountain bar with crabby waitresses.
@@alexstokowsky6360 Oh I hear ya. When I was a kid I referred to Woolworth’s as “ the dusty store,” although I adored the lunch counter and especially their grilled cheese sammies. When I went out on my own however, long before Amazon and the Internet I discovered that whatever I needed, Woolworth’s sold, and at realistic prices. Plus, the one here still had the original wooden escalator, which I miss to this day!
J C Penny & Sears were amazing at one time. Online buying did them in. Penny’s is still around in our town. Sears only exists at Ace Hardware & Lowe’s. The good stuff is at garage sales.
@@jimwiskus8862 You must be talking about Craftsman Tools when you say Sears exists at Ace Hardware & Lowes. They are mostly made in China now. I think, it was their mall locations which did them in, as people stopped going to malls, the locations are expensive to rent, and they both have been floundering for many years, even before internet shopping really took hold.
Helena Woolworth McCann also bought the estate that I mentioned in your video on Hammond Castle: Henry Sleeper's Beauport in Gloucester, MA. Martin T. Carey also owned Seaview Terrace in Newport (another of the videos in this series). Another very good video.
When i used to do hikes up in Glen Cove I would marvel at the sight of the mansion on Crescent Beach Road. I actually drove my car around the drive once when the gates were open, Like going back in time. It's interesting to note that when the daughter committed suicide, a lightening strike during a storm sent a crack down the fireplace and through the daughters carved image. Also, with all Woolworth's wealth, he died of blood poisoning due to simply ignoring issues with his teeth.
"daughter's carved imagine"..? What's that mean?
@@missylou725Above one the large marble fireplaces, Woolworth had three carvings of him and his family. A lightning strike put a crack in it going through the daughters carved image when she committed suicide.
@@missylou725 ** image. Think her auto correct is toying with her, can you imagine 🤔 that
Gotta wonder wtf
@@missylou725 YT scrambles words all the time
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I was thinking -was that like gay used to mean happy and now it means homosexual.kind of a re-purposing of the word deal going on lol
Working in places with flat roofs makes me wonder why people would build mansions with them. Leaks are going to happen. Can anyone tell me why on a flat roof doesn't have a slight pitch to send water to the sides and down a gutter?
Most smaller buildings do. Larger flat roofs have drains throughout the roof piped down through the building to the storm sewer.
I grew up on long Island and still live here and I've never heard of this house 😂, the Amityville horror is much more well known
Thank you for not putting music in the video.
It's always nice to find a rare video that I can actually hear, without some awful music covering the voice!
There is an excellent book on the estate, written by a later resident, called "Winfield: Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths". While there is a section on occultism, the rest of it is quite interesting.
Excellent as always.
Wow, interesting and well told! I loved the story of Frank thinking he was Napoleon and barking orders, lol.
I liked that story too, creates a memorable image in the mind. Maybe he got in touch with Napoleon's spirit through the occult and became possessed by his spirit. Maybe he became Napoleon for real. Who knows how these things work.
The music room was pretty spectacular! Hope the new owners restore it !
Us too! Can you imagine what it could look like?
I never knew any of this about Woolworth. Fascinating. Thanks for teaching me something new and interesting. Never too old to learn. 👍
Taylor Swift filmed the video for Blank Space at Winfield. This mansion’s history is so interesting!
Actually, it was Oheka Castle, 135 W Gate Dr, Huntington, NY where the video was made.
@@FordMan-pe7sm Exterior scenes were at Oheka, interior scenes were filmed at Winfield.
@@lisaknell1809 I guess we're both right. A few scenes were shot inside Oheka Castle. Most of the interior scenes were shot inside Winfield.
I live in Old Bethpage near the 1800s restoration and I always feel uncomfortable at night when it closes early
I worked at Woolworths in a mall as a cashier! Also, they had a small restaurant attached to the store (1950's style) and it had really good food! It was a fun place to work but it closed down!
There was a Woolworth's on the plaza in Santa Fe for many, many years. My dad would take us kids to the lunch counter there for frito pie while Mom shopped. We loved it. Popcorn or ice cream after. It had a checkerboard floor and the waitresses were SO nice. Gone, sadly, long gone.
The fact the the title says "on long island" is enough for me
I want to hear more about the models who attended Grace Downs who mysteriously died. That sounds intriguing!!
probably from starvation and drugs
1:19 Center of the frame towards the bottom, you can see one of the "stairways" that the workers used to get from floor to floor. lol, OSHA wouldnt know what to do these days
257k a year in property tax. What a joke . That is extortion not a tax.
Of all the houses you’ve described, this was my favorite house. I love the finishes they chose, simple, not so gaudy!!! What an incredible story of Mr. Woolworth. I remember going to one in my town with my mother. It was a treat! Thank you, checking in from Southern California.🙋🏻♀️😎🌞☀️
I grew up in a haunted house and have had some terrifying experiences there. When I moved out for college, the paranormal experiences got worse and eventually everything came to a head. It took me too long to understand what was happening was paranormal. I made a few videos about it on my channel if youre interested
I grew up in a haunted house and have had some terrifying experiences there. When I moved out for college, the paranormal experiences got worse and eventually everything came to a head. It took me too long to understand what was happening was paranormal. I made a few videos about it on my channel if youre interested
I spent a year in a haunted Mobil home that was manufactured in the late 50’s. You would never think that a trailer home could be haunted but the young couple who lived there and purchased it cheap because they had to tear out the flooring in main living room (due to Charlie dying and not being discovered for 1-1/2 months -original owner) used to hear the kitchen cabinets and drawers opening and closing at night and it made them feel better to blame their 2 big cats. I witnessed a huge door hook swinging up slow and slamming down over and over like you might use a door knocker that was mounted to front door for extra security. It really was like a big barn door hook. It was a sunny afternoon with sunshine flowing in. Nothing scary, until I watched and heard it slam-slam-slam maybe 5 times before I made it out of my chair and 10 more times while running down the long hallway to the back bedroom we were renting from the young couple. I actually just got a chill typing this! My GF , who became my wife was folding laundry on the bed and looked at me when I ran into the room she said “What’s wrong you look-like you saw a ghost”!! I never visually saw anything again but hearing many things, yes. It really happened. It can be explained no other way.
I appraised this property about 15 years ago. Rumor has always been that a porno was filmed here in the 70s, prior to the Pall Corporation leasing the place as a conference center and (scam) School for the Blind. Taylor Swift did a video here once. Selim Rusi purchased the home recently and has a "colorful" past as well.
Must be colorful indeed. Didn’t he die in 1905?
I'm born and raised in Glen Cove, this is one of our treasures. My favorite will always be Pembroke, it was magnificent. My heart was broken when they demolished it.
Very interesting and well done. I liked the entrance hallway which I thought was impressive. The original owners were a colorful lot ( Napoleon ! ? ).
Remember when he built a skyscraper for 13 million… and his house is said to be worth 9 million… I think it’s more about the treasures inside rather then the homes themselves…
This is a very interesting story. That house has many tales to tell, and it's a shame that everything inside was sold before there was a full examination. I would bet there were connections between the house and inventory. What people often see as crazy, can actually be magical.
I went to a lecture on Winfield by Monica Randall. She’s fascinating. She said because the mansion is made out of marble, that marble is like a tape recorder and the sounds are released mostly when there’s electric charges in the air such as a lightning storms. I’m not saying this is accurate but it does make a lot of sense. The weirdest thing to me is the mantle over fireplace with family crest had a crack over his daughter’s face the night appeared the night she committed suicide. It is possible that with his delving in the occult could also have alot of mysterious happenings involving the mansion. I’ve found out that an attempt to restore it is going on. I hope is can be. Considering how badly Oheka was I’m crossing my fingers.
Wow, I never knew this dark side of Woolworth. I think it safe to say he’s the epitome of American entrepreneurship but he definitely went off the deep end in turning to the occult. This is one historic structure that I would be on the fence regarding its preservation due to its dark past. Stunning craftsmanship though. Each and every episode you present is entertaining and interesting; Thanks TH.
Sounds like he was inviting a lot of demonic things into this home.
Crazy Eyes Woolworth
i hope they restore it and not raze it to divide the land for new mcmansions
It is being restored. I live close by and was worried it would be subdivided. So happy to see its transformation!
Great history beautiful mansion great story
I remember seeing (on the internet) this place for sale about 15-20yrs ago.... Though I don't recall the price, it was on the market for _quite_ some time. In the listing that marble staircase was highlighted, as was the driveway, and the Neptune statue area.
It had been empty for a good many years and required a _lot_ of attention.
This Mansion is insanely beautiful. I rented it for 2 days to shoot an Ariana Grande video. (FYI Her video "Boyfriend" was shot there.)
Unfortunately, at the time we did Arianna's video, I wasn't investigating yet but I really wish I was. I will say this. I ended up walking down a staircase into the basement and the feeling I got down there was incomparable to alot of other places. I know something was there with me. Luckily I didn't hear any disembodied voices because at the time, I may have dookied in my pants.
It was funny, we went to go pay the Mr. Carey for the rental of the house and they gave me an address to go to. I looked at it and got confused because it was directly across the street. The addresses were like 1 or 2 numbers off. He bought this little place across the street (like a Bungalow style house and a Ranch style mixed)
So, I walked into this small house and there was Mr and Mrs Carey, sitting in their small kitchen and just living a simplistic life in a less expensive house. I was compelled to ask, so I did "Mr Carey, im just curious, how come you own that absolutely tremendous Mansion across the street, but, you live here in this smaller place" and his response was "im alot older now, so that is too much house for us young man, when I was younger though I lived in there and we had some great times." As he and I were having this conversation, his lovely wife sat across from us at the kitchen table and.....get this....she was clipping freaking coupons to go food shopping. 🤣🤣🤣 smart? Absolutely, you don't stock away and sit on billions of dollars in your lifetime without finding some savings here and there right? Why not save on food shopping right.....lmao? I just found it funny at the time considering this man had a 50 million dollar Mansion sitting directly across the street from us, another Mansion in Rhode Island that is probably 3x-4x bigger than the Mansion in NY is, then another property I know he owned and I got to do a walk through was right down the road from where we were on a golf course. It was large enough to be a hotel and I remember walking through there and CONSTANTLY feeling things brushing up against my back or having this feeling of cold air blowing on my neck. I didn't even think at first about it being haunted because it was such a huge place, I just figured it was a breeze blowing through this tremendous space.
Anyways, back to this place.....its definitely haunted, all the rooms are absolutely gorgeous, the entry foyer is probably the largest and nicest foyer I have ever seen in my whole life. I dont even think someone like Shaq or even Elon Musk have an entryway as lavish and gorgeous as the one in this house. When I say Marble everywhere from the lowest point up to the highest point, im not exaggerating. They probably spent more money on the foyer than most people's whole houses cost.
I had the pleasure of meeting the groundskeeper. Man I give this dude all the credit in the world. He took care of multiple properties for Mr Carey and loved these places like they were his own. I really hope after Mr Carey passed away that his daughter did the right thing and kept him employed and took care of him. I'm going to assume Mr Carey left him a nice lump sum of money when he passed away. Mr Carey passed away in 2020 still in possession of the house but his daughter put it right up for sale when he passed away.
Think about this for a minute: she posted it for sale for VERY CHEAP.
58 Million Dollars and it's yours.
Now that's gotta be the most expensive haunted house you could ever buy.
If the Foyer cost more money than most peoples houses cost, imagine what the rest of the house looked like.
I'm pretty sure they probably used up a large portion of the whole world's marble supply when they built this house. 🤣🤣🤣
Anyways....if you wanna get a different kind of glimpse at the house and what it's basically used for every week and weekend for now, watch Arianna Grande video "Boyfriend" and also the coming attraction video for the Wrestling game that came out that same year. I'm thinking it was WWE2K19. but it's the commercial that has Hogan, Stone Cold, Brock, Charlotte, Becky, Flair, Braun and a bunch of other WWE wrestlers and HOFers and they are all dressed up in tuxedos and dresses and they are in a Mansion what looks like a big dinner party and then all hell breaks loose. I think Becky starts a fight with Hogan. Lol
Anyways. Sorry for the novel, but, a good knowledgeable read at the very least. Lmfao
Great video.
I really liked the bowling alley and of course the tower. What a view.
_”...mysterious burst into flames.”_
Mmm...ok. Sure. An “accident.” 🤣
Very interesting Ken….Mr. Woolworth had some Napoleon identity issues but can’t fault him for that. But how does one have a wife and mistress (with bigger living quarters) in the same house? Thanks Ken!
My guess? He was a heck of a salesman.
Always so fascinating!!
BOO!
I miss MISS Woolworth Stores
I used to like shopping in Woolworth stores until the day in 1960 when I quickly entered the store to buy a carton of Doby, which was washing up liquid( a new thing at the time). I had my baby son in a small pushchair and was pounced on by a Superviser who frog marched me to the exit and told me prams were not allowed in the store. I asked if she could bring the item to me at the door, she refused. No way was I going to leave an infant unattended on a busy Edinburgh Street. I shopped elsewhere after that.
Did anyone notice at 2:13 there is a face on the right leg of the statue? That's creepy
its common in beaux art and rennaissance revival furniture to just put faces in weird places
I really miss those stores .... the candy, the lunch counters!
A spooky episode of “This House” 🎃
I wonder how the family feels when I hear a mistress also lived in the home. Was she a worker, a caretaker? I couldn’t do work if I were a mistress 😂 and damn, his wife got a small bed and chair
Thank you Ken 🙏
Love watching
Loved the staircase
What an incredible history!
This one is my favorite so far.
The music room was my favorite....the chandelier was impressive.
WOW, just wow!!!
Can you do mentmore towers
We typically cover architecture in North America. Occasionally, we will cover something across the pond and Mentmore is definitely on our radar!
I don't think it took a genius to come up with the idea for a Woolworth or McCrory. Just like Walmart: buy cheap and sell dear.
I can olnly imagine how much fun the original owner had dressed up like Napoleon paying scientists to time travel
It's an interesting building and history but would not want to visit. This location sounds like it has some bad/negative energy going on. Someone needs to cleanse the heck out of that place.
It's amazing to me how some of the very wealthy build mansions that are way more than their family needs and so often live there themselves only few years and die. It seems much tragedy comes with these homes that are built to impress rather than to reside
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I wonder who carried the insurance?
The models could’ve died from the “deadly mold” that was in the house
Can you imagine? Todays modern “Mansions” will probably be dilapidated In 100 years or less. Unless, built of stone like thee olde days. Must look at every component that goes into a home. In the old days they used hardwoods of true to size 2x12’s under floors and as the roof framing. Many of todays mansions use substandard materials. Roofs sheeted in 5/16 wood etc. Time will tell.
Heat and cold cause expansion and contractions making noise.
i live on li, never heard of or seen this house
That’s a really fucking beautiful mansion ngl
Thank u
I’m in Glen cove great house
Women were dying in the house? Yea, I wouldn't move in...
This would make a great movie. My favorite was that honey comb celing.
Woolworth .we had them in Germany..loved it
Pretty cool place...love the fireplaces...this would be fun to investigate. Sounds like he started going bat-crap-crazy....
Cool thanks. Built in 6 months now they can't build a wood POS in a year.
I'm noticing a pattern in This House older houses series. House is unsellable or falls into a state of disrepair? MyStErIoUs F i R e ! Problem solved.
His granddaughter Barbara Hutton squandered the entire Fortune down to $1,200.
Barbara squandered the trust fund that was left to her, which was massive. There was and is plenty of Woolworth $'s still left. Woolworths became Foot Locker.
I am so glad my soul has no need for a mansion a large house let alone this castle
I thought to myself “damn that place looks familiar” then I realized that it’s in Glen Cove
Thought he was Napolean, never knew that. The models who died there, is strange as well.
Money makes you crazy
Frank sounds like he was fun at parties.
When I'm a ghost I'm definitely picking a super rich family to haunt.
as heartbreaking as it was for his family, I think it would be pretty hysterical to walk into a mansion like this and see some old guy in his underwear shouting "JE SUI NAPOLEAN!"