Welwyn Preserve (Glen Cove, New York)

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  The Dosoris Kid (guest)

  The boundaries of this former estate are drawn to wide. It looks like you've included Poplar Hill, now Glengariff and the Babbett estate.

  18 years ago | reply | hide comment
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  GM47

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

  16 years ago | reply | hide comment
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  Catherine Reinhard (guest)

  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.

  15 years ago | reply | hide comment
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  Ima Webbie (guest)

  You're right, they've also included all of the Webb institute's property as part of the preserve.

  10 years ago | reply | hide comment
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  CBR (guest)

  Has been corrected.

  9 years ago | reply | hide comment