sentences:  Shadowbrook was so large that a family anecdote tells of Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. being told by his mother while playing outside one day that because there was a storm gathering he should come inside and bicycle in the attic.Shadowbrook was sold in 1906 to Spencer P. Shotter a wealthy turpentine magnate from Georgia.The Stokes owned a house on Staten Island, purchased in 1868 from John M. Pendleton.