page_title: Welwyn Preserve
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Welwyn Preserve / History
caption_attribution_description: English: View at low tide looking north along the coast and across Long Island Sound, at Welwyn Preserve, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA, October 2014
context_page_description: Welwyn Preserve County Park is a 204-acre public nature reserve in Glen Cove, on the North Shore of Long Island in New York State.
  Welwyn Preserve was originally Welwyn Estate, the estate of the industrialist Harold I. Pratt. The main house, Welwyn, was one of the Gold Coast Mansions.
  The Welwyn estate also includes woodland and other natural habitats, as well as part of the coast facing north onto Long Island Sound. The mansion is currently used as the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.
context_section_description: Welwyn was originally the estate of Harold Irving Pratt, an American oil industrialist and philanthropist who was born in 1877, and died at Glen Cove in 1939. Harold Pratt, the owner of Welwyn, was one of the sons of Charles Pratt, who was also an oil industrialist and was the founder of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
  Welwyn includes the estate's original Georgian-style mansion, which was built in 1913, and which was designed by Delano & Aldrich.
caption: View at low tide looking north along the coast and across Long Island Sound, at Welwyn Preserve.
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