LIU Post
private university in Brookville, New York, USA
LIU Post, formally the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and often referred to as C.W. Post, is a private university in Brookville, New York, United States. Located on Long Island, it is part of Long Island University (LIU), and the largest school in the LIU system.
History
The campus was originally named after C.W. Post, father of Marjorie Merriweather Post, who sold her Long Island estate known as "Hillwood" to Long Island University in 1951 for $200,000 ($2,480,769 today). "Hillwood" was built 30 years earlier and shares a title with her Washington D.C. Estate. Three years after acquiring the property, LIU renamed it C.W. Post College in honor of Post's father.
Campus
LIU Post is located on 307 acres (1.24 km2) of rolling hills in Brookville, New York, on Long Island's North Shore. The area is sometimes datelined as Greenvale, because there is no "Brookville" post office, and the school is in the zip code that is served by the Greenvale post office, which is to the west. Greenvale station is the nearest Long Island Rail Road station.
On the property, numerous historic estates have been repurposed for various uses. Adjoining "Hillwood," Adelaide Breevort Close's residence (constructed a few years after Marjorie Post's mansion), is now the admissions office.
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