The country house was designed by Mott Schmidt (possibly in collaboration with Danish architect and painter Mogens Tvede) in 1933 for industrialist Jeremiah Clark, Sr. Clark served as president of Central Concrete Co. of Brooklyn and chairman of the board of the Audley Clark and Straclar holding companies. The property was subsequently owned by financier Walter McClure who called the estate "Tall Trees". McClure served as partner of the McClure, Jones & Co. stock brokerage firm.