In 1901, when you could still find acres to purchase on Long Island, Nikola Tesla, a native of Like, Austria (now Croatia) born on June 15, 1856 to Milutin and Djuka Mandic Tesla, did just that. Although he was living in New York City at the time on Houston St., Tesla purchased 200 acres in Shoreham. Upon those acres he built a laboratory on a former potato farm with a plan to deliver free electricity to people through the air. Today, the remains of his complex are being saved by Joseph Skorski, according to the @Long Island Pulse Magazine.
Nikola Tesla immigrated in 1884 and became a US citizen in the summer of 1891, where at the time he was living at Hotel Gerlach (now the Radio Wave Building) in New York City as a Civil Engineer. It seems he had a preference for hotel living, as in 1918 he was living in the beautiful Waldorf Astoria. He died in 1943 at the age of 87. He never married or had children.
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