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President Tristram Walker Metcalfe and his wife standing in front of what is today the Administration building. This photograph was taken in 1951, three months before the sale of the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate to Long Island University became final. This is the only known photograph of the Metcalfes on the estate prior to the opening of the campus.	Standing underneath the mansion’s western porte-cochere are Susan Metcalfe, standing on the right, with her childhood friends Barbara Britz, (middle) and Susan Britz, (left).
Here is a full view of the western porte-cochere looking from the driveway. Barbara Britz and Susan Metcalfe can faintly be seen walking in the distance.	Barbara Britz, (right) and Susan Metcalfe, (left) looking out of what had originally been a second floor screened sleeping porch.
A wonderful close up view of the ivy-covered turret on what today is the Admissions building. This building was originally built in 1928 as a summer retreat for Marjorie Merriweather Post’s eldest daughter Adelaide Close Riggs.	A favorite place for little girls to play, the thatched cottage was built in the early 1930s for Marjorie Merriweather Post’s third daughter, Nedenia Marjorie Hutton (known today at the actress Dina Merrill). The cottage was named the "Deen-Wee" by combining Dina’s and her niece Marwee’s (Marjorie Durant Dye) names.