What Happened to the Frank Woolworth Mansion on Long Island? (Winfield Hall) 

Ur the ghost

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Ha!! Poke him in the neck whenever he sleeps to ask him more!

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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

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.

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...

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!

@@mwdmwd9552 I hope you are not serious. No one should be that (derogatory term).

If we can secure a tour we would love to show it on our channel!

Most smaller buildings do. Larger flat roofs have drains throughout the roof piped down through the building to the storm sewer.

My childhood home was one of the Gould family’s summer cottages Owl’s Cote.

In a hundred years, they’ll probably be making videos about the house of the founder of B&M Bargains or something…😂

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.

"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 . 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

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.

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.

My guess? He was a heck of a salesman.

Must be colorful indeed. Didn’t he die in 1905?

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.

Us too! Can you imagine what it could look like?

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.

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

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

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.

We typically cover architecture in North America. Occasionally, we will cover something across the pond and Mentmore is definitely on our radar!

probably from starvation and drugs

its common in beaux art and rennaissance revival furniture to just put faces in weird places

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.

A poor man's idea of a rich man's house.