Lattingtown, New York recent comments:

@ Metahuge: Good luck with this wonderful home. Even though it was in a marginally dilapidated state when I visited it back in the mid 2000's I could tell it was special place. If you would be so kind as to share a pic or two of the chapel I would greatly appreciate it. My email address is sizedeep1@aol.com

@ KMS: Thank you so much for that info. I've been wondering about that for 16 years lol

The Lundy restaurant sign was brought in by a previous owner after purchasing the brooklyn property for development. There is no direct connection between the house and Lundy.

Edith Kane Baker estate

No one has abandoned any plans of restoration and there is no bad luck. There are files and files of history on the happy habitation of the property with a house on it since 1670 (and much farther back by native peoples who farmed Corn Creek). But life does intervene --also, as you point out, restoration is time consuming and costly. Having plans drawn and getting permits takes a long time. It took over a year to get permission and trench in the utilities (which have now been completed), it took another year to fix the roof, and put in septic systems. Window restoration and repair of the shed for storage of building materials get underway this week. Meanwhile pool cabana-- has also been restored but NOTHING is rented out (nor has it ever been since before 2005). We are currently on the property actually. Evidently it's easier to be hateful than helpful.

Yes.

Does anyone know if there is a connection between the Lundys restaurant and this property?

The city had caused some delays.

We bought the house in late Nov. 2014 and are going to restore it. No glitz but hopefully some former glory.

The Armstrong dairy building which was run by and owened by Meudons owner is still standing and now apartments. Eddie Armstrong (2014) still lives 100 yards to the west of the (his familys) old dairy building and still raises chickens and sells eggs. Hopes to soon be selling "cut you own" Christmas trees

this place is outstanding

As children, we camped by the stream and ponds in the woods surrounding the Mausoleum. The Pratt family always allowed this use and it remains one of the best memories I have of growing up in the neighborhood. The great estates preserved the open space and made Glen Cove one of the nicest places to live.

I used to live in the servant's quarters....wonderful place!

I've heard both that it was an early sand mine and that it was a gold coast marina.

This estate was not built for Mr. Gibson, it was owned prior to his marriage by his wife's family, the Bournes. After Harvey Dow Gibson died, his wife maintained the estate for decades until she died in 1979. It was sold by her daughter to Daniele Bodini, a real estate developer from New York who subdivided it. The original main house was sold to Dr. SJ Aston of Park Ave., New York City. He reunited the main house and the outbuildings in the 90s and the property is currently almost 40 acres, with the spectacular formal, flower and cutting gardens still intact and in use.

This marina closed down in the late 1990's.

I swam in this lagoon back in 1987. This lagoon didn't form naturally. It was dug by a sand mining company sometime in the 1800's or early 1900's. Sand mining companies mined sand and sent most of their product to N.Y.C. to make concrete and glass, etc...

I am happy to be the protector of his fountain of "Three Graces".

This is not the Latting family burial ground. That can be found in the backyard of the Latting Family house at the intersection of Lattingtown and Frost Creek roads.