Glen Cove, New York recent comments:

The Hunters sold it in the 40's to Harold K and Alice Guinzburg who owned and ran the publishing house Viking Press. It belonged to the Guinzburg family until the early 1980's.

Actually built circa 1896. Later owned by Busby's daughter, Gertrude Busby (Mrs. Thomas) Leeming.The Thomas leeming Compnay owned the distribution rights to Ben Gay and later Paquin hand cream.

Although I am uncertain who the original owner of this property was, by 1910 it was owned by Arthur Gibb, brother of Walter Gibb, Florence Gibb Pratt (Mrs. Herbert L.), Ada Gibb Hester (Mrs. William Hester)and Edith Gibb Kimball (Mrs. Eugene Kimball), Glen Cove residents all. Arthur Gibb's widow, Emily Matthews Gibb (she had previously been married to his younger brother, John), summered at this house until her death in 1941. It was subsequently owned for several years by her daughter, Ruth Gibb Carhart. Called "Iron Acton" during the Gibb's ownership (after the ancestral english villiage of the Matthews family), it was eventually sold to Mrs. Reynolds, former owner of Winfield Hall who renamed it "Slo Tide".

Howard Major completed his work on Glen Lo farm for Althea Gibb Eldredge, the daughter of Mrs. Walter Gibb (of Old Orchard, Glen Cove)who was also the niece of Mrs. Herbert L. Pratt and Mrs. William Hester. Subsequent to Edward Irving Eldredge's death, his widow married Malcolm Dubois Hunter

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my guess this was built by the same as whom ever built Nassau Country Club..smaller scale, they look very alike.

I used to go to this house everyday in 1988-1989. It was converted into a small private school for children. I was there for nursery school and pre-school. Very old memories of running around in the backyard and playing in the house.

My husband and I grew up in a small subdivision by Welwyn, and spent many hours roaming the land and woods surrounding the estate, all the way down to Long Island Sound. It was fascinating even as a young person, to scrape back dirt off of trails and find that it was really a road from the past. Or to look at the planting in the woods and realize that, at one time, what we were looking at was part of magnificent landscaping...waterfalls, statuary and the like...it stirred your imagination into what life was like in a bygone era... initials carved into trees in the 1920s that we could just make out in the 1960s...now indecipherable, I'm sure. The Russians back driveway from Killinworth was across the street from my home, the Glengariff Nursing Home, then, just in the old mansion, up on the hill. I worked in the nursing home one summer, and despite the atmosphere of senility and decline of the aged, the magnificence of the home was evident...marble bathrooms, parquet floors, beautiful paneling, bronze stair railings, and a view of the water to die for. Definitely days long gone. Too bad in the 50s and 60s so few appreciated the history and artistry of all those homes on the Gold Coast, as most are lost now...to the bulldozer of "progress"...and we do not get to see or appreciate that era of our country's history.

53 acres.

This property is now owned by Bouvier "Buddy" Beale's son, Nicholas Ridgely Beale.

From 9-09 blog: The front of J.P. Morgan Jr.'s 'Matinecock Point' in Glen Cove designed by Christopher Grant La Farge in 1913, and now the site of a new Neutra building shipped there by barge recently. rr

Island was purchased by Peter Caverly in 1721 for 200 pounds.(Oyster Bay town records, vol. 4, 1721-1732, pg. 502).

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This location is actually now called "Poplar Hill Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Facility" they are also part of the Glengariff Nursing home which is located on the same property just beside t. it really is a shame what they have done to the interior of this building..... i'm sure thee was alot more intresting achtecture then whats there now, plust the exterion facade is crumbling to dust..... a shame indeed

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I have been to this house about 10-12 years ago, its still privately owned. I know for sure that a mother and son (must be in his 30's or 40's now) live in the house but I don't think they're related to the Morgans. To the right of the house in the auto court the son kept 2-3 Emu's in an open pen in the middle of the auto court. The son told me his Great Grandfather who they called Colonel built the house, which seems to be a lie.

Thank God the County bought the property. In the late 60's the City of Glen Cove wanted part of it for a landfill.

This was the George D. Pratt Tennis Compound and became the YMCA in the late 50's.

I think the house that was demolished in 1969 belonged to Charles M. Pratt Jr. and was located off Forest Ave. where Gribbon School now stands. If I remember right Seamoor burned about 1948 and was located north of Killenworth.