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The Manor is a historic mansion in Glen Cove, New York. It was constructed in 1910 as the home of John Teele Pratt and Ruth Baker Pratt. [1] [2] It was designed by Charles A. Platt. [3] In the 1950s, it was used as a location for the films North by Northwest and Sabrina. After the death of Ruth Pratt in 1965, it became one of the first ...
Welwyn was part of the estate of Harold Irving Pratt, an American oil industrialist and philanthropist who was born in 1877 and died at Glen Cove in 1939. Harold's wife, Harriet, left the Welwyn estate to Nassau County when she died in 1969. The mansion was neglected for approximately 30 years, during which time for a ten-year period it was ...
In 1910, Porter left Chemical to become a partner in the firm J.P. Morgan & Co. Personal life. Porter was married to Esther Jackson (1862–1934), a daughter of James Jackson. Together, they lived in a townhouse at 45 East 68th Street in Manhattan and had a country home in Glen Cove on Long Island. They were the parents of:
The J. P. Morgan estate in Glen Cove was heavily damaged. The wife of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia was forced to wait out the storm on the second floor of their Northport cottage. Mitchel Field army airfield was buffeted by winds of nearly 100 mph (160 km/h) and was under knee-deep water. [45]
Welwyn Preserve. Coordinates: 40.884°N 73.639°W. The mansion of the Harold Pratt estate, Welwyn, at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York State, US. Currently, the mansion houses the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. Welwyn Preserve County Park is a 204-acre (0.83 km 2) public nature reserve in Glen Cove, on the North Shore ...
Bogheid is a historic Gold Coast mansion in Glen Cove, New York. History. It was built in 1938 for Helen Porter Pryibil, daughter of William H. Porter. It was designed by Delano and Aldrich in the French Manor style. At some point Prybil sold the estate to the City of Glen Cove.
Herbert L. Pratt. John Teele Pratt. Harold I. Pratt. Charles Pratt (October 2, 1830 – May 4, 1891) was an American businessman. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and he established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. He then lived with his growing family in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
Added to NRHP. May 17, 1979. Woolworth Estate, also referred to Winfield Hall, is a historic estate located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was designed in 1916 by architect C. P. H. Gilbert (1861–1952) for Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852–1919). The estate consists of the main residence, known as Winfield Hall; a large garage ...