Our Daytrip began at Westbury House, the 23-room Charles II-style mansion, built in 1906 on 160 acres, by John Shaffer Phipps (1874–1958), heir to a U.S. Steel fortune, for his British wife, Margarita. The glassed-in porch was everyones favorite room. The stunning dining room was take whole from the family house in Manhattan. The painting on the left is a John Singer Sargent commission. The house is filled with exquisite paintings. Even the private parts of the house are just as Mr. and Mrs. Phipps left them at the end of the 1950's.
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