I don't know if stories like this one, that appeared in The Moriches Tribune in June of 1938, got Frank Calabro's wheels turning or not, but if he did see it, he would figure that some type of medical facility in the Mastic area was sorely needed.

Getting your initial medical treatment in a auto repair shop, be it Parr's or anyones and waiting for a doctor to show up from three towns away and then being taken to the closest hospital some 20 miles away on the opposite shore of Long Island is not the best way to beat the odds of surviving an accident. Note: I went to school with Artie Hall and Sandra Lichtenberger both whom I think were children of the guys in this story.

In the first months of Doc's purchase, his in laws moved into the mansion house with him, while they built their homes on the property. Pat and Mike did a lot of repairs to house" Mike and I fixed 80 broken windows, the heating system. and painted the place to make it livable", Pat Messinetti recalled 17 years ago. His son Gary who was only around 3 in 1946 remembers some fun times living and exploring the big house and the outbuildings. Like his Uncle Ben Siriani locking him and his cousin Bobby into the east wing of the mansion when they mis behaved. The half dozen cousins all played in the ice house and the barns that still had buggies in them and a huge old car. Gary thinks was a Pierce -Arrow (perhaps left behind by Lanier or Lawson?). Not to mention having the Pattersquash Creek in your backyard for swimming, sailing, It had to be a fantastic adventure for all the cousins. I know first hand from having the Knapp mansion to play in what an experience like that does for a kid.

Gary also remembers his aunt Elsie wanting to get rid of all that "smelly old furniture" left behind in the estate. Was it some of the "early American treasures" Henry Lanier tried to sell? He recalls a whole lot of it getting thrown out in the yard and a bonfire! Uncle Mike took a desk up to the gas station for the office. His daughter Diane still has it. But there's no telling what colonial treasures may of been in that bonfire. Elsie Calabro was thoroughly modern Millie and her taste in style could explain why the Calabros also moved out of the mansion and built a ultra modern ranch style house to live in. When all the families filtered out into their new houses, Doc put his plans for the big old place into motion.