The St. Ignatius Jesuit Retreat House at “Inisfada” (Gaelic for Long Island) in Manhasset, Long Island, New York.

There is SO much more to photograph on these beautiful grounds. I can’t wait to go back on a day when it’s not rainy and overcast. Much more to come.

From the website…
“Nicholas and Genevieve Brady built the 87 room mansion between 1916-20 as a summer home. As you drive through its iron gates, a strong white figure of Christ greets you with open arms. Almost immediately a medieval like castle looks down upon you, a tall tower with slated roofs and embattlements. It once was the fourth largest mansion in 1920 and holds what is the most beautiful small chapel in the country, St. Genevieve, on the second floor. Meanwhile thirteen sculptured fairy tales don the outside walls around the Tudor Elizabethan mansion beginning with little red riding hood and the big bad wolf. Ancient but attractive gargoyles, angels, drones and clowns as well as many small animals peer at you from above under eaves and corners. Even within its walls such creatures and foliage are replicated on ceilings and over fireplaces. A visitor once remarked with reverence, “This is a place with soul.”

After the death of her husband, Genevieve donated Inisfada in 1937 to the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. By 1963 Fr. John Magan, S.J. converted it into a retreat house. What was formerly a summer refuge for the wealthy eventually became a spiritual oasis for all.”