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Possibly best remembered for his acquistition of the land for the Pennsylvania Railway's New York Terminal but his Ville Mille Fiore, which he commissioned in 1910 on 12 acres of sand on the corner of Coopers Nec and Great Plains Road in the Hamptons, architects Hill & Stout created a palatial 24-room four-story mansion based on the Villa de Medici in Rome. Six master bedroom suites all overlooking an Italian Renaissance garden, must come a good second. Mr. Boardman lived there for 17 years before selling to a partner Judge Morgan O’Brien who lived there until his death at 85 in 1937.⁵

Phyllis B. Gibson, an accomplished yachtsman and a teacher naturalist, died of lung cancer yesterday at Greenwich Hospital. She was 75 and lived in Cos Cob.
Born in New York City May 5, 1914, she was a daughter of the late Phillip W. and Dorothy Raymond Boardman.
She attended the Chapin School in New York, the Northampton School in Northampton, Mass., and Vassar College. Most recently, she studied music history at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Mrs. Gibson, a resident of the Greenwich area since 1963, was an honorary member of the American Yacht Club in Rye N. Y. She had been a member of the Greenwich Representative Town Meeting for eight years and was a member of the water pollution committee.
An avid gardener, she had been a teacher-naturalist at the Greenwich Audubon Center. During World War II, she was a volunteer medical technician at United Hospital in Port Chester.
She was the widow of Francis F. Gibson.
Surviving are four daughters. Phyllis Gibson of Huntington, Frances G. Duckett of Brooklyn, Susan Snow Leskin of Farmington, and Margaret Szejko of Tucson, Ariz; a son, John J. Gibson of Pawling, N. Y.: a brother, Phillip W. Boardman of Orleans, Mass; a sister, Cecil Boardman Hoisington; and eight grandchildren.³