Name that Building

Well the structure is just about finished and needs a name. I keep hearing Hangar 19 and just laugh.  So we need your suggestions for a name.

I believe I just ran out of space.  Eight cars from a collection from Scotland and 6 cars from my London garage just landed.  Not to mention about 16 trucks that I have been storing for the widow of a Connecticut trucking museum that closed are now mine.  

Some know our family and some of the names used on our "barns" such as cobra barn, Chinetti barn, or Ford barn. Decades ago my granddad started to collect whole barns from mostly the northeast and all were timber-frame construction.  The rebuilt structures might look different but all are built with the large timbers. These became beautiful structures inside and the barn name has always stuck. All have kitchens and bathrooms and some of the larger ones have lofts or partial second stories but most remained large open one floor spaces.  And these would eventually be filled with "stuff." Could be older pumps from years ago, spare parts, cars, boats even planes and they all eventually got full.  One has an old carousal inside and yet two others have amusement rides called "The Whip" & Twirlly Bird.

Three enormous buildings were built: 1950's style airplane hangar(we call the barn), overflow barn which sort of looks like a large cow barn and probably covers close to 3/4 acre and a large indoor horse training arena.  The hangar has a work area that is still used to work on the cars and mechanical equipment on the property. Also here are two P-51 Mustangs and a Sabre jet which my granddad flew on our airstrip until about 1980. Prior and during WWII he structured many of the industries and NAA was one of those that manufactured these planes. One Mustang is one of the last ones to be built and we still have several spare Merlin engines in original crates. You English lads should know what those are. lol  The hangar was never completely full because it's still an active work area. This is the only building of the three that has modern heating and air.  The horse arena is a large structure with an indoor arena and is still used but not as much as days gone by.  It's been kept up like any building with repairs and repainting over the years. Sort of a dated building.

Now the overflow barn is another story! This area contains whole rooms that have been collected over the years. Old machinery, various parts of gas stations, thousands of signs, anything automobile related is stored here. Without looking I would say probably over a million parts, many NOS too. Also tons of Bankers Trust stuff and huge architectural pieces. 

I think the whole of the Bankers Trust on Liberty street is here when it was closed and remodeled at a later time. This is the building in lower Manhattan with the pyramid on the top/across from JP Morgan. 

I have multi-layered complex issues and some that are very sensitive. Having an airstrip so close to Westchester County airport(HPN) is another issue at times.  But we have kept the airstrip in use all these years and it has predated HPN as a national guard airport in 1942?

Because of our airstrip and his defense work back then the property has always kept a certain level of a no fly zone.  Meaning since HPN started commercial flights long ago there are no air routes near our property. You can see them in the distance but nothing to complain about. Sort of ironic since I was one of the advocates for noise abatement there. Oh by the way I was explaining this to a guest years ago one of the great modern story tellers and just based on that one fact that no planes are allowed over our property he wrote a whole script which became known as "The Village" by M Night Shyamalan.

So over the years I've wanted to incorporate different ideas and several years ago started the planning. I can use our main house to hold several hundred people for various functions but over the years its become a sanctuary to best describe it.  On most of our larger properties during the summer we host various programs for inner city youths so that was one small issue but mainly to get rid of the old hangar and build a multi function area.  Built into a hill on one end is just completed an Imax theatre. A very large area that I wanted for all those great science & educational movies that were filmed in IMAX.  Really great big movie seats for about 30 but can be converted for much more if needed. Everything is modular and with work the seating area can be broken down and stored. A huge soundproof wall closes this area but that is motorized and the wall stores away to open the area up.  

Back in the days of Rainbow and Deep Purple reunion Blackmore use to live in Connecticut. We used the overflow barn back then and set up a stage and work out their stage set-ups and practice. I always wanted an area to serve as a stage setting for foundation events. I always sponsor tables at the USS Intrepid functions for former USN and also not many left but would like to host roadrunner(original U2 & SR71 pilots) and other military groups from time to time. There is a stage area able to handle most functions such as a concerto and Broadway plays. My friend Allan Houston hosted a fundraiser for Obama back in 2008 in Conyers Farm and this area could serve those functions and high dollar plate functions.

A small marble chapel was built and consecrated by the Pope decades before I was born and every spring I get requests to use it for weddings and the estate for pictures. All from employees or relatives of employees under our corporate umbrella.  There is an area with commercial level kitchen appliances so food can be prepared by those catering or cooking.  I would say with the IMAX area closed this area can handle over 500 for dinner seating and not sure yet how many if chairs are brought in for a concert setting. 

Malcolm Pray died a few years ago he was a Greenwich resident who had a nice car collection(some went to auction) and was a long time business owner who ran Pray Porsche/Audi/VW.  We both from time conducted workshops & presentations so this area can be used also for this. When not in use some planes might be stored in this area, not sure. On the other end is a modern area for car, boat and plane restorations. No 61 meter Benetti yacht

is going to fit through the doors but some of the 40-50 ft speed boats can be accommodated and worked on here. And the P-51 Mustangs are soon to be slowly worked on and fully flight readied. They still have the machine guns intact. It was interesting getting automobile, aircraft and boat experts to try to equip this area with the best multi-functional systems.  On one corner there are six car lifts that four cars can be stacked making it about 24 cars for temporary storage. And a lot of the work areas that were for mechanical and automobile maintenance has been re-routed to this area too. 

One of the main reasons for finally doing this is because it will save money and most importantly save time for everyone. Because I actually sell billions of dollars worth of aircraft to business associates/ contacts/friends I have for years have had a Boeing jet to use. It's not my job it's more of a courtesy business arrangement.  The airport is a short drive away but usually if going into Manhattan the Bell is used and at times I'll use the copter for the short hop to the airport. That Boeing is a big business jet and not enough runway and/or overrun to safely accommodate it.  So it gets stored and serviced there. Because of the development of the G650ER(extended range) I can use that on our airstrip and save money on airport storage, all the fees involved there. Boeing is actually paying for it and will pay for a new trade in every four years unless they develop a plane for my runway length. It actually is saving them millions of dollars by not using their aircraft and they even contributed about five million for the construction of this new structure. If not aware of the new Gulfstream it can fly faster, higher and further than others. Not to mention much more comfortable due to air pressures but the main point is I can take off and fly to Tokyo or LA to Australia in one flight.

Will have to redo the old hangar eventually because there are others like a Dehavilland Otter & Beaver and other bush planes, ultralights and an autogyro(hell if I use that one) to store.

So as stated much of catering and events like wedding can be routed to this building. With the massive doors opened the Imax can be used for media events too, that's how it was engineered to be multi-purposed. At this point I think a hangar has to be designed and erected for the planes/copters and smaller boats.  I don't think it practical to have to empty all the craft out for events.  

Well that's the history of some of the buildings if you can think of a great name just send a message.  

Just to give you an idea now I need to find a permanent space for these vehicles-not all of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFzf-ayPVI4