He turned his back on Tuxedo Park and relocated to Manhattan and East Hampton.

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He himself lived nearby in another Tuxedo Park mansion with his wife and three sons.

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As with his Tuxedo Park house, Mr. Bruno says he used a light hand with the renovation.

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When he tried to give his mansion laboratory to the Rockefeller Foundation, Tuxedo Park neighbors nixed the deal.

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"Tuxedo Park is the first time in a long time I've felt like I wanted to keep something, " he says.

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In 1926 Loomis bought a huge, crumbling mock-Tudor mansion in Tuxedo Park called Tower House, where he set up the lab.

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In 1936 Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning atom-smasher, visited Tuxedo Park.

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One of the oldest gated communities in the country, founded in the mid 1880s, Tuxedo Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Founded in the mid 1880s, Tuxedo Park in Orange County, N.

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Loomis threw himself into the job, shutting down the Tuxedo Park lab to work on developing a long-range radar system that would allow Allied forces to detect enemy movements during World War II.

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