Planting Fields on Long Island

By Linda Tancs

Located in Oyster Bay, New York, Planting Fields is one of only a few surviving estates on Long Island. It includes Coe Hall, a 65-room Tudor Revival mansion purchased in 1913 by English immigrant William Robertson Coe and Mai Rogers Coe, heiress and daughter of Standard Oil partner Henry Huttleston Rogers. Guided tours provide visits to select rooms on the first and second floors; self-guided tours are also available, with docents available for questions throughout the manor. Equally as stunning are the gardens designed by the Olmsted Brothers Firm (sons of the famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park). Maintaining its original 409 acres, the garden complex includes an Italian garden, cloister garden and circular pool, rose garden and perennial garden together with two greenhouses.