Stewart Manor Country Club

The 1927 club that opened its doors to the public

The About Us page gives a short history. The club opened in 1927 as a neighborhood country club with tennis courts and a swimming pool, hosting Saturday night dinner dances and an annual masquerade ball. It later opened to the public to host events, and that sentence answers the only question that matters before any of the rest.

There is no membership requirement anywhere on the site, no sponsorship language and no member guest policy. Events run in house through events@stewartmanor.com and 516-328-7540, with no separate catering brand attached. Golf is not part of the current operation despite the name, so if you are picturing a course and a pro shop, adjust the expectation before the tour.

Two marketplaces, two different per person stories

WeddingWire lists $135 per person off peak and $155 per person peak, calls peak May through December and off peak January through April, and attaches a 100 guest minimum. The Knot lists a flat $135 starting price with no seasonal split, plus an estimate that couples usually spend $20,000. Both were fetched on 10 September 2026. Both are marketplace figures. We print both.

WeddingWire's stated inclusions are worth carrying into the meeting. They cover an open bar with premium liquor, a champagne toast, house beer and wine, a signature drink and bartenders. They also cover dessert, cake cutting, a plated or station dinner, linens, china, flatware, glassware, tables, chairs, a bridal suite, setup, cleanup, parking and valet. Have the club confirm that list item by item, because those are the marketplace's words about the club's package.

Three cocktail rooms feed one ballroom

The Grand Ballroom has a cathedral ceiling, mahogany beams and a carved stone fireplace, per the club's weddings page. Cocktail hour spreads across three separate spaces: the lobby, the main cocktail room and the bar room. There is a main dining room as well, and outside, the Great Lawn for ceremonies.

No per room capacity is published for any of them. That is the frustrating gap here, because the difference between one cocktail room and three is the difference between a queue at the bar and a room people can move through. WeddingWire puts the venue at 100 to 205 guests. The Knot puts it in a 151 to 200 band. Those do not agree, and neither is the club's own figure.

The menu PDF on their own server is a dead end

There is a wedding menu PDF hosted on the club's own domain. It sits under a 2020 upload path and carries no machine readable text, so nothing could be read out of it. Even if it could be read, a 2020 menu is six years old and any price on it would be stale. We mention it because it will surface in your own searching and look authoritative.

No service charge, maitre d' fee, bridal attendant fee or administrative fee is published by the club, and none appears on either marketplace listing. On Long Island those add ons routinely run into four figures. Their absence from the record is a hole in your budget rather than a saving.

Stewart Manor or Garden City, and why it matters

The building stands at 51 Salisbury Avenue in the Village of Stewart Manor. The zip code is 11530, which is Garden City, and directories file the venue under Garden City accordingly. The club's own contact page uses that zip.

This is a nuisance in two directions. Your guests will type one name into a map while your invitations carry another, and your search for photographs will split across both. The WeddingWire listing sits under Garden City while the venue calls itself Stewart Manor. Neither is wrong. Say both when you are giving directions.

One event at a time, and the club says it twice

The About Us page states that only one event runs at a time, so the manor and the grounds belong to that party for the day. The weddings page repeats it. That is a first party claim, unlike almost every other assertion on this page, and it is the strongest thing the club publishes.

What is not published: an end time, a curfew, a rain policy for the Great Lawn, or any approved vendor list. The site names a dedicated maitre d', banquet managers and uniformed wait staff, and describes executive chefs building custom menus. That reads as in house catering with no outside caterer option, but nobody says it outright. Confirm it, and confirm what happens to a Great Lawn ceremony in weather.