Walter Uhl

Walter Uhl was a major 20th century builder on Long Island, in New York, and was the founder of the Flower Hill Building Corporation. He is especially well known for his work in Flower Hill, New York.

Early life Walter Uhl was born ca. 1903.

Career Uhl started his building career in the 1930s. One of his earliest projects was the purchase of 27 lots in Manhasset Bay Estates in Port Washington, New York, which he would build homes upon.

Around 1939, Uhl founded the Flower Hill Building Corporation, and he soon began one of his earliest and most prominent projects: the Flower Hill Estates subdivision of Flower Hill, New York.

Uhl started building the Flower Hill Estates subdivision around 1939, over the former estate of Samuel L. Hewlett. He planned to build roughly 150 small estate-style homes. He started building along Country Club Drive, adjacent to the North Hempstead Country Club, and built his homes in the colonial style to reflect Flower Hill's historic character and traditions. Uhl predicted that the war restrictions, which influenced investors to purchase land to build homes when the war ended, would lead to a major suburban building boom come the end of World War II.

Uhl famously repurposed old wood from local farmhouses by incorporating them into the interior designs of his homes in Flower Hill Estates, and blended the homes in with the natural surroundings.

In 1950, Uhl built the fifty-acre (20 ha) Plandome Mills development over the former Leeds estate, where approximately eighty homes were constructed.

In 1962, Uhl would help sponsor the development of Orient-by-the-sea near Orient Point, New York. This development would include homes, a large marina on Gardiner's Bay, a dining room and a cafeteria, a swimming pool, a motel, and facilities for seaplanes. Furthermore, the development would feature of property along Gardiner's Bay. Frances would commit suicide in New York Hospital's psychiatric division on September 23, 1957; she suffered from episodes of depression and was admitted to the hospital that past August. Fairway Farms, Cutchogue, New York

Additionally, many of his homes were built as reproductions of other, historic homes.