Saturday, October 7, 2023

A Checkered History

 Originally built in 1911 as a country home for a wealthy Wall Streeter, this building spent the 1930s as the home of a mobster union boss who spent much of that decade behind bars.  Eventually it was bought by new owners who turned it into a resort hotel.


In the 1960s and '70s, it was a retreat for the Jesuits.  In 1979 it was acquired by the Society of St. Pius X,  a renegade Catholic sect who persist with the Latin mass and refuse to go along with modern changes decreed by the Popes in recent decades.  This sect uses it as a retreat.

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