page_title: Frederic B. Pratt
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Frederic B. Pratt / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: 229 Clinton Avenue between Dekalb and Willoughby Avenues in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City was built in 1895 as the residence of Frederic B. Pratt, a son of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt, and was designed by Babb, Cook &amp; Willard in a combination of the Georgian and Northern Italian Renaissance Revival styles. It is now the Caroline Ladd Pratt House of the Pratt Institute and is used as a residence for foreign students. The building is entered through a two-story stoa or pergola which was built to hide the side of the building next door. It has six Ionic columns and six caryatids and atlantes supporting a trellis on the second floor. The building is located within the Clinton Hill Historic District. (Source: AIA Guide to NYC (5th ed.) and "Clinton Hill Historic District Designation Report")
context_page_description: Frederic Bayley Pratt was an American heir, the president of the board of trustees of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute for 44 years, from 1893 to 1937, and president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1910.
context_section_description: On 17 October 1889, he married Caroline Ames Ladd (3 September 1861, Portland OR - 12 June 1946, Glen Cove), the daughter of William S. Ladd and Caroline Elliott. They had three children:
  Charles Pratt (1892- ), President of the Board of Pratt Institute from 1937-1953
  Mary Caroline Pratt (1895-1980), who married attorney Christian Herter. He later served as Governor of Massachusetts (1953-1956), and Secretary of State (1959-1961).
  Helen Ladd Pratt (1899-1972), who married a Mr. Emmett.
  Pratt commissioned Charles A. Platt to design the family county estate, known as "Poplar Hill", in Glen Cove, on the North Shore of Long Island. Since 1971 it has been owned and operated by Glengariff Healthcare Center.
  Pratt commissioned a family home at 229 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, designed by noted New York architect Henry F. Kilburn. It was originally known as the "Frederic B. Pratt House" (it is now known as the Caroline Ladd Pratt House). It was completed in 1898 in a neo-Georgian style. The family donated the property to the Pratt Institute.
  Pratt died May 3, 1945 at his family home in Glen Cove, aged 81, of a heart ailment. He was survived by his wife, who died a year later, and grown children.
caption: Caroline Ladd Pratt House, 229 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn
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