Forget traveling all the way to Britain or Scotland, we have castles right here on Long Island. Okay, they’re not all real medieval castles but they are close enough. Want to explore a big house and feel like you’re in an episode of Game of Thrones or Downton Abbey? Explore one of these great big castles on Long Island.

 

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Oheka Castle - According to the website, Oheka Castle was built in the middle of a 443-acre plot on the highest point on Long Island in Cold Spring Harbor for an estimated cost of $11 million ($158 million in today’s currency) over a century ago. Book a tour here. Location: 135 W Gate Drive, Huntington.

 

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Hempstead House at Sands Point Preserve - “The Sands Point Preserve on the original Guggenheim Estate embodies the grandeur and elegance that define the Gold Coast period of the early 20th century, when prominent American families built great mansions on large estates as summer retreats along the Long Island Sound, says the preserve’s website. The Sands Point peninsula was the famed “East Egg” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Hempstead House is one of a number of castles on the grounds that you can visit. Tours available. Location: 27 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point.

 

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Castle Gould at Sands Point Preserve -  Castle Gould is a 100,000-square-foot limestone building modeled after Ireland’s Kilkenny Castle and built in 1904. Location: 27 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point.

 

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Falaise at Sands Point Preserve - According to the Sands Point Preserve website Falaise is one of the few intact historic houses remaining on Long Island’s North Shore. The home in the style of a 13th-century Norman manor house. Location: 27 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point.

 

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Westbury House at Old Westbury Gardens - Completed in 1906, the Charles II-style mansion is “nestled amid 200 acres of formal gardens, landscaped grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes,” according to the website. Location: 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury.

 

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Mill Neck Manor (formerly known as Sefton Manor) - Designed in 1922 for cosmetics executive Lillian Sefton Dodge, the 60,000 -sq-ft home was inspired by St. Catherine's Court in Somersetshire, England. Tours of the home are available and events are held on the grounds. Location: 40 Frost Mill Road, Mill Neck.

 

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Eagle’s Nest at The Vanderbilt Museum - Eagle’s Nest was the summer home of William K. Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Built in 1910 as a small English cottage the home was expanded over the years into the sprawling 24 room Spanish-Revival mansion it is today. Location: 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport.

 

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Coe Hall at the Planting Fields - Built in the early 20th Century to resemble a 400-year-old English manor, Coe Hall is a 65-room Tudor Revival mansion. Location: 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay.

 

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Coindre Hall - Now an event venue, Coindre Hall - originally called West Neck Farm - is a 40-room, 80,000-square-foot building designed in the style of a medieval French château in 1912. The hall and grounds are owned by Suffolk County. Location: 101 Browns Road, Huntington.