Margaret carnegie miller home
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Estate built by Andrew Carnegie's daughter on the market for $14 million
A sprawling, and very unique, Hudson Valley estate built for a scion of one of the great fortunes of the Industrial Age is on the market.
Known as Migdale, the property spreads over acres with views of the Catskill Mountains. There are several outbuildings, a working orchard and an impressive home known as "the castle."
Migdale was built in for Margaret Carnegie, the only child of business magnate and industrialist Andrew Carnegie and modeled after Carnegie's Skibo Castle in Scotland.
The property includes everything one might need for a long stay: A massive organic garden and greenhouse (there is a separate, temperature-controlled orchid house), a chicken coop, tennis court and a children's playground. Ancillary buildings include a three-bedroom gatehouse and a 10,square-foot staff house with four one-bedroom suites and an additional two bedrooms.
Russell Miller, Margaret Carnegie's then-husband, had
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Millbrook's Migdale estate designed after Scottish castle enjoyed by Carnegie family
When Margaret Carnegie was born in March , the only child of Scottish-American industrialist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, she entered a life of wealth and privilege. Often cited as one of the richest people in history, the elder Carnegie transformed his early modest existence into a life in which he owned numerous residences, including Skibo Castle in Scotland, a structure that dates to
On April 22, , just four months before her father’s death, Margaret married Roswell Miller Jr. at the Carnegie family home at 2 East 91st St. in New York City. Miller was a successful civil engineer and real estate executive, and the wedding received extensive coverage in The New York Times.
In the mids, along with other families of wealth in search of upstate property, Miller purchased acres in Millbrook and enclosed the entire parcel with a foot wire fence to skydda his private herd of deer and elk. He e
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Migdale Castle
Luxury In Dutchess County
By Harry Brads
In , Migdale Castle in the tony New York suburb of Millbrook was completed for Margaret Carnegie Miller, the only child of Andrew Carnegie. It offers unparalleled woodland and Catskill Mountain views; the estate was modeled after Carnegie’s Skibo Castle in Scotland. Today, one of Duchess County’s largest and most well-appointed mansions is now on the market.
After falling into a state of disrepair, the acre estate was purchased and given a meticulous four-year renovation. The one-of-a-kind mansion is more than 34, square feet affording four floors, 29 rooms, ten bedrooms, 17 baths, 12 fireplaces, and a professional kitchen
A MODERN WONDER
“From the time you pass the majestic gates, the princely estate commands respect. Immediately you realize you are somewhere special, winding up the private driveway. The moment you catch a glimpse of the house, you are taken with its architectural and historic