"The Farm House" (Glen Cove, New York) | LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, Colonial Revival (architecture)

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Estate home designed c. 1913 by Charles A. Platt in the Colonial Revival style on originally 49 acres of land for John Teele Pratt, Jr {industrialist, capitalist, financier}. Pratt served as vice president of Chromium Corp. of America, United Chromium, and Chemical Treatment Co., partner of the Post & Flagg and Harris, Charles Pratt & Co. and Upham & Co. stock brokerage firms, and director of Birmingham Realty Co. and Transcom Electronics. He also served as a trustee of Pratt Institute, Huntington Library of California, and Museum of the American Indian.

It was later owned by John's sister, Phyllis and her husband Paul Henry Nitze {financier, statesman, diplomat}. Nitze served as a founder of the Dillon Reed & Co. investment banking firm, was Secretary of Navy in Department of Defense from 1963-67, Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1967-69, United States Ambassador-at-Large from 1969-74, and was the Chief United States Delegate for the International Nuclear Forces talks from 1981-84.

See also:
www.oldlongisland.com/2015/04/the-farm-house.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Platt
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nitze
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