At least 10,000 people used them to move into stable apartments, often in better neighbourhoods than those they had left.
The millionaires along this strip were concerned not only about their houses but also about keeping their environment free of nuisances: trolley lines, slaughterhouses, stables, apartment buildings, stores and hotels.
The Granary apartment features sky-lights and original beams, while the Saddle Room and Stables apartments incorporate old hay racks, mangers, stalls, and feeding troughs.
Accommodation is onsite, either in the luxury self-catering Stables apartments (£122.50 per night, two sharing), or in the Edwardian hall with its mullioned windows and fireplaces (£50pp pn B&B).
Straight ahead are "the stables" — an apartment and garage wing — and to the other side are the main living quarters.
Displaced Syrians seem to fill every nook and cranny: half-finished cinder block houses, stables, crowded apartments.
The list of assets to be discussed in court is likely to be eye-watering, from the family's 30,000-hectare private compound and wildlife sanctuary in Kenya, where parts of the film Out of Africa were shot, to racehorses, stables, a New York apartment, dozens of paintings and a Gulfstream jet.
Among its many perks are 80 rolling acres, a 22-stall stable, two efficiency apartments for grooms, a tack room and a commercial laundry facility.
"It was pretentious, but it was reassuring when people weren't sure how stable or classy an apartment house was".
