He was the grandson of Doctor Daniel Robert, and born to Christopher R. Robert, a millionaire importer in 1835. For most of his very privileged life he socialized with The Vanderbilts, Cuttings, Astors etc in New York, Paris, Newport, Rhode Island and out on Oakdale, LI , where he had a country gentlemans estate known as "Pepperidge Hall". He also inherited his fathers share of "Doctors Point" in Mastic in 1878. He most likely spent some time there duck hunting because his name appears as the estate owner on several maps from the 1870's on through the early 1900's along with his nephew Chas. S Robert. I think Christopher definitely left his mark in Mastic..... Being a wealthy builder, he most likely is the one who had constructed the finer Victorian buildings on the estate that were not in the style of the buildings his farmer cousins the W. S. Robert clan would of used. Some examples were the Victorian carriage houses,like the late Red Barn Restaurant constructed at a cost of $7,000.00!! and current Mowdy homes on Cranberry & Diana Dr another former carriage house are examples) and other outbuildings like the Messinetti outhouse/toolshed on Bayview Drive

His life (that was reported in the papers) seems to have been a series of odd occurrences ...he reportedly had quite a rivalry going with his neighbor William K. Vanderbilt (read the hunting dog incident) in Oakdale and I read of some derricks that were blocking access to his Riverside Drive apartment . He wound up suing the mayor of NY city and the construction equipment wound up in the Hudson River during the night.... but what I found most interesting about Christopher Rhinelander Robert was .....