Allen Winden

The Lanier's summer home enjoyed a spectacular view over Laurel Lake but after Lanier died his heirs sold the property. The farms and greenhouses were purchased by his neighbor, Cortlandt Field Bishop, while the house and remaining 60-acres were sold for $50,000 (less than half of its estimated value) to Reuben Jay Flick who with his wife, Henrietta, had been summer residents at Lenox for over twenty years.

In 1928, the Flicks demolished the house and while renting Frelinghuysen House built Uplands in its place. As President of the Lenox Horse Show Association (1933 to 1936), Flick's large stables were well-known here. Also well-known was his elder daughter, Margot Flick Hoffman, who shocked society after her honeymoon when instead of returning home with her husband, she ran off to London with another woman, the Irish aristocrat Doris Castlerosse, and two years later bought the Palazzo Venier in Venice. Flick himself died at Uplands in 1940 and the gardens and the land was sold off in lots, a large part of which is today occupied by the Winden Hill Condominium complex.