Listing of the Day: Lydia Pratt estate in Glen Cove
This Glen Cove estate was built for Lydia Pratt, a daughter of Charles Pratt, who founded Standard Oil, for her wedding to philanthropist Frank Lusk Babbott. The asking price is $4.2 million.
Built in 1890, the 6,895-square-foot house has views of the Long Island Sound and backs the Welwyn Preserve. The Georgian-style white clapboard house has seven bedrooms, six bathrooms and two half-baths. "The house is different than the other Pratt estates because it is not brick," says Carol Cotton, who is listing the property on behalf of the Locust Valley office of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty. The 6.09-acre property has been approved for a three-lot subdivision.
The estate is owned by Michael D. Miness, who heads a property management company specializing in health care facilities. In 1998, Miness filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against local Republicans who he said implied in a newsletter that he bribed then Mayor Thomas Suozzi and city Democrats to support a nursing home he wanted to build. A Nassau County Supreme Court judge dismissed the suit.
The Glengariff Health Care Center, which Miness owns, is located in one of four more Pratt homes in Glen Cove. (Pratt owned 1,100 acres in the community and built the homes for his children as each of them married.) The other homes now house the Webb Institute, Glen Cove Mansion and Conference Center, and Killenworth, now home to the Russian delegation to the United Nations.
Miness and his family "brought the house back to where it should be," says Cotton. "They appreciated the history of the property and restored it. It's a very gracious, beautiful home."
Neighbors include Jed Morey, chief operating officer of The Morey Organization. Saul Katz, who owns part of the Mets with Fred Wilpon, lives nearby. And former Met catcher Paul LoDuca used to rent a home in the area.
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