Wyckoff Villa
Location: Thousand Islands, New York
Year: 1890s
Cost: $495,000*
Carleton Island, where Wyckoff Villa is built, has 34 residences and most people use ATVs. William Wyckoff, a gun salesman for E. Remington & Sons, erected the villa in the 1890s. A Richardsonian Romanesque-Tudor Revival home with eleven bedrooms. Unfortunately, Wyckoff died one day after moving in. GE bought the property to use as a company retreat. WWII derailed those aspirations. The 1940s removal of windows and doors left the mansion in disarray.
Wyckoff Villa
City Methodist Church
Location: Gary, Indiana
Year: 1925
Cost: $800,000*
Dr. William Grant Seaman established the City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana. Built in 1925, the Church was designed in the Gothic Revival Style and cost $800,000 in 1920s dollars. Dr. Seaman planned to bring a church to Gary, Indiana, which was (and still is) a disreputable neighborhood. US Steel, Gary’s largest employer at the time, agreed to offer the site to Dr. Seaman. Dr. Seaman led the church until the late 1920s, when his flock booted him out for advocating ethnic pluralism. After Dr. Seaman was forced to leave, the church continued to decline. It officially closed in 1975.
City Methodist Church
