The Mansion at Glen Cove

 The Mansion at Glen Cove was designed by architect Charles Adams Platt in 1910. The 55-acre estate was the home of John Teele & Ruth Baker Pratt. John Pratt was an attorney and an executive with John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. Ruth Baker Pratt was the first woman elected to Congress from New York. The area surrounding the Mansion is scattered with former Pratt estates. John Pratt’s brothers were also his neighbors. George developed “Killenworth,” a Gothic Tudor mansion, which is currently the Russian Consulate’s quarters. Frederic’s stone mansion, “Poplar Hill,” which is now a home for seniors. Herbert’s waterfront home, “The Braes,” is now the Webb institute of Naval Architecture and Harold’s Neo-Georgian mansion is now Nassau County’s “Welwyn” Preserve.

Originally known as The Manor, The Mansion features a stately two-story portico entrance, an elegant, baronial double staircase, imported paneling and antique fixtures. Portions of the movies “Sabrina” and “North by Northwest” were filmed at the mansion.

The estate was maintained by the Pratt family until 1965, when Ruth passed away. Two years later, in 1967, the Harrison Conference Center bought the mansion and transformed it into a conference center and hotel.  In 1967, it became one of the very first conference center hotels in the United States. In 2018, it added 60 more rooms to its accommodations, making the room total 187.

 

Sources:

“The Mansion.” The Mansion at Glen Cove -, 9 Apr. 2022, themansionatglencove.com/the-mansion

Ryan, Caroline. “A History of the Glen Cove Mansion.” Glen Cove Record Pilot, 29 Aug. 2019, glencoveoysterbayrecordpilot.com/a-history-of-the-glen-cove-mansion