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Estate (land)

An estate is a large parcel of land under single ownership, which would historically generate income for its owner.

For other uses, see Estate (disambiguation).

Ipswich, Massachusetts; estate of Richard Teller Crane Jr.

Castle Hill

Meadow Farm, ; estate of H. B. Hollins (demolished)

East Islip, New York

Oyster Bay, New York; estate of William R. Coe

Coe Hall

Oakdale, New York; estate of Frederick Gilbert Bourne

Indian Neck Hall

Inisfada, ; estate of Nicholas Brady

Manhasset, New York

Idle Hour, ; estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt

Oakdale, New York

'Greenacres' Beverly Hills, California; estate of Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd Estate

Montecito, California; estate of Stanley and Katharine McCormick (demolished)

Riven Rock

Hillsborough, California; estate of Harriett Pullman Carolan (daughter of George Pullman)

Carolands

Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; estate of the Woods—Bliss Family, landscape architecture by Beatrix Farrand

Dumbarton Oaks

Large country estates were traditionally found in New York's Long Island, and Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line, Maine's Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, and other affluent East Coast enclaves; and the San Francisco Bay Area, early Beverly Hills, California, Montecito, California, Santa Barbara, California and other affluent West Coast enclaves. All these regions had strong traditions of large agricultural, grazing, and productive estates modeled on those in Europe. However, by the late 1940s and early 1950s, many of these estates had been demolished and subdivided, in some cases resulting in suburban villages named for the former owners, as in Baxter Estates, New York.


An important distinction between the United States and England is that "American country estates, unlike English ones, rarely, if ever, supported the house."[4] American estates have always been about "the pleasures of land ownership and the opportunity to enjoy active, outdoor pursuits."[4] Although some American estates included farms, they were always in support of the larger recreational purpose.[4]


Today, large houses on lots of at least several acres in size are often referred to as "estates", in a contemporary updating of the word's usage. Most contemporary American estates are not large enough to include significant amounts of self-supporting productive agricultural land, and the money for their improvement and maintenance usually comes from fortunes earned in other economic sectors besides agriculture. They are distinguished from ordinary middle-class American houses by sheer size, as well as their landscaping, gardens, outbuildings, and most importantly, recreational structures (e.g., tennis courts and swimming pools). This usage is the predominant connotation of "estate" in contemporary American English (when not preceded by the word "real"), which is why "industrial estate" sounds like an oxymoron to Americans, as few wealthy persons would deliberately choose to live next to factories.


Traditional American estates include:

English country house

Estate map

Finca

Gentry

Hacienda

Patroon

Real estate

Real estate business

Real estate development

Real estate bubble

Villa