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‘Belcaro’, the Frank Norton Hoffstot estate designed by Mortimer Foster c. 1910 in Sands Point.  
Hoffstot was president of the Pressed Steel Car Co. and the Clinton Iron & Steel Co.  He was also president of the National Bank of America and a director at the New York Trust Company.  In 1910 Hoffstot was indicted in Pittsburgh for bribing an ex-Select Councilman, a charge which he spent the next year fighting and was eventually acquitted in 1911.  ’Belcaro’ was demolished in the 1950s.

Belcaro’, the Frank Norton Hoffstot estate designed by Mortimer Foster c. 1910 in Sands Point.  

Hoffstot was president of the Pressed Steel Car Co. and the Clinton Iron & Steel Co.  He was also president of the National Bank of America and a director at the New York Trust Company.  In 1910 Hoffstot was indicted in Pittsburgh for bribing an ex-Select Councilman, a charge which he spent the next year fighting and was eventually acquitted in 1911.  ’Belcaro’ was demolished in the 1950s.

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