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Colonial building, the Raynham Hall Museum, Fence and front entrance, Long Island, Y Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Raynham Hall Museum, an historic colonial mansion on Long Island, New York, USA Royalty Free Stock Photo

Raynham Hall Museum on Long Island, New York, USA Royalty Free Stock Photo

Raynham Hall Museum, Oyster Bay, Long Island

Home of George WashingtonÃ¢â¬â¢s intelligence operative Robert Townsend, Raynham Hall is a time capsule of Long Island life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Purchased by RobertÃ¢â¬â¢s father Samuel around 1740 and expanded from a two-over-two farmhouse into a four-over-four town house whose land extended down to the bay and for acres all around, the Townsend family homestead was named Raynham Hall by SamuelÃ¢â¬â¢s grandson, Solomon, when he renovated it according to the Victorian taste of his own time, in the mid-19th century. Having shed most of its surrounding property around the turn of the twentieth century, the houseÃ¢â¬â¢s final transformation came in the 1940s with the removal of the Victorian elements from the front part of the house, which was then restored back to its original Colonial appearance, but retaining the Victorian rear addition.