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Walter W. Law. Walter William Law[nb 1] (November 13, 1837 – January 17, 1924) was a businessman and the founder of the 8,000-person village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. He was a vice president of furniture and carpet retailer W. & J. Sloane, and later founded the Briarcliff Lodge, the Briarcliff Table Water Company, Briarcliff Farms, and ...
Walter Law, founder of Briarcliff Manor. After retiring as vice president of W. & J. Sloane, Walter Law moved with his family to the present Briarcliff Manor. He bought his first 236 acres (0.4 sq mi) with the James Stillman farm for $35,000 ($1,186,900 in 2023 [14]) in 1890. [1]
Walter William Law (November 13, 1837 – January 17, 1924) was a businessman and the founder of the 8,000-person village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. He was a vice president of furniture and carpet retailer W. & J. Sloane, and later founded the Briarcliff Lodge, the Briarcliff Table Water Company, Briarcliff Farms, and the Briarcliff ...
There's a persistent rumor the Walter W. Law, the founder of Briarcliff Manor came from an if not poor then "not particularly well-off" family from Kidderminster, UK. We recently came across this photograph of his boyhood home, "The Limes" in Kidderminster.
Walter William Law had it built on his estate, and the Law family owned it until 1937. When the lodge opened in 1902, it was one of the largest resort hotels in the world.
Walter Edwin Law (1865-1942) was a prolific etcher of the British School. W. Edwin Law and Two Daughters, Lilian (l) and Florence Annie (r) His main subjects were historic architectural landmarks in London, especially in Westminster. In his early 20th century etchings he captured an older London.
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Briarcliff Farms was first established in the village of Briarcliff Manor in Westchester County, New York in 1890 by Walter William Law (1837-1924). It was at one point one of the largest dairy operations in the Northeast, known as much for being modeled after a European country manor, with its tenant farming and Tudor-style buildings, as for ...
