Background The land was initially known as
Broad Hollow Farm, a grant made in 1664 to
Edmond Titus, founder of
Westbury, New York, and a son of
Robert Titus. Its pond was used as a boundary marker. The estate remained in the Titus family for many generations. which was later noted for its "severe Quaker simplicity". Alterations were made to the farmhouse around 1892 by
Richard Morris Hunt. In 1980, the property, by then known as
Old Westbury Farm, was sold to Dominick Imperio. He was suspected by the FBI of being an associate of the
Colombo crime family, and in 1990 he was caught trying to sell the house to FBI agents posing as drug dealers, and offering to
launder the money. The property was then seized by the federal government as part of a
plea bargain. In 2016, the residential subdivision was eliminated, with allocated to the cemetery. The cemetery was planned to have up to 200,000 burial plots. However, the cemetery's opening was delayed for over two decades by legal disputes with the
Village of Old Westbury, which denied the necessary zoning change in 1995. The diocese sued the village in state court to compel the zoning change under religious land use protections, and received a favorable ruling in 2000 that was upheld on appeal in 2002. The diocese sued in federal court in 2009, alleging that the village was abusing its powers to delay and prevent the cemetery's development. The litigation was settled in 2016, with the village paying a $7.5 million
settlement to the diocese. Construction had begun by 2018. and it opened on November 5, 2023. == Chapel ==