Editing Plandome Manor, New York (section)

==History==
The Village of Plandome Manor incorporated in 1931.<ref name=":81">{{Cite book|last=Winsche|first=Richard|title=The History of Nassau County Community Place-Names|date=October 1, 1999|publisher=Empire State Books|isbn=978-1557871541|location=[[Interlaken, New York]]|pages=}}</ref> Like the villages of [[Plandome]] and [[Plandome Heights]] to its south, Plandome Manor derives its name from the Latin 'Planus Domus', meaning plain, or level home.<ref name=":81" /> The manor house of [[Matthias Nicoll]] who was an early mayor of [[New York City]] and among the first generation of the Nicoll family on [[Long Island]], was a wood-frame home built in the 1670s, and one of the first homesteads in this area of Cow Neck, the namesake of the [[Cow Neck Peninsula]] (also known as the Manhasset/Port Washington Peninsula). The manor itself was torn down in 1998 and replaced with another estate.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Toy|first=Vivian S.|date=June 12, 2005|title=Endangered: Historic Preservation|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/nyregion/endangered-historic-preservation.html|access-date=September 8, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Author Frances H. Burnett, author of ''[[The Secret Garden]]'', built her home, Fairseat, in Plandome Park in 1908, and lived there until her death in 1924.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Village History|url=https://plandomemanor.com/about-the-village/village-history/|access-date=June 24, 2021|website=The Village of Plandome Manor}}</ref> Burnett's son, Vivian, and his wife Constance, had erected a home nearby on Bayview Road after their marriage. Following Frances Burnett's death, her nephew, publisher Archer P. Fahnestock moved into Fairseat, but the home burned down leaving only the stucco carriage house and garden intact. In 1940, Fahnestock sold it to [[Leroy Grumman]].<ref name=":1" />