Today there are very few places in the metropolitan New York area where you can be an important part of preserving and enjoying open space, nature, wildlife and architectural magnificence. Please join in the urgent effort to make sure that the Nassau County owned 216 acre former Guggenheim Estate, now called Sands Point Preserve, is maintianed forever as open space and as a daily exhibition of past and future natural beauty, human creativity and achievement.

On this site, the largest property in Sands Point, steep cliffs overlook a mile of sandy beach, directly on Long Island Sound. A sparkling pond teeming with wildlife runs from uplands almost to the coast, resulting in a melding of saltwater and freshwater species. Silent trails meander through deep woods. Walk century-old stone bridges and gaze in wonder at peerless castles and Gatsby-era country homes that are the embodiment of a golden era.

The Preserve was the ultimate Gold Coast estate, the famed "East Egg" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", the home first of Howard Gould and the actress Katherine Clemmons, and then during its glory years the residence of Daniel and Florence Guggenheim and their son Harry and his wife Alicia Patterson. Harry and Alicia founded Newsday while living here and Harry's world-renowned collection of art, sculpture, furnishings and history is on display during seasonal docent-guided tours at his cliffside French manor house called Falaise.

Located just 40 minutes from Manhattan, there is no better place on the planet to observe, celebrate and believe the era of Gatsby. Represented here today are the art of the Guggenheims, exquisite textiles and gown collections, literature including the book "We" wrtten here by Charles Lindbergh and the actual lifestyle of the times.

Many of our country's greats visited the Guggenheims here and combined achievement with pleasure. The words and deeds of Charles Lindbergh, Orville Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bernard Baruch, Robert Goddard, Herbert Hoover, Averell Harriman, Madeleine Albright and other remarkable men and women still echo here.

The property contains several of the nation's architectural treasures in addition to Falaise, including the 100,000sq ft Castle Gould, designed in the style of Ireland's Kilkenny Castle: the 50,000sq.ft. Hunt & Hunt designed mansion, Hempstead House whose verdant walled lawns overlook the Sound; the waterfront country house Mille Fleurs, which was built for Florence Guggenheim following the death of her husband Daniel, and the magnificent garage and stables.