Aldred, J. E.

John E. Aldred, a public utilities magnate, joined with William D. Guthrie (02945), Charles H. Pratt (03120) and John Paul Getty to buy the hamlet of Lattingtown, NY, in 1910. They kept the charter and built their mansions along the north shore of Long Island. Aldred, Guthrie and Pratt each engaged the Olmsted Brothers for their landscape plans.

Working alongside architect Bertram Goodhue, the Olmsted Brothers designed the landscape for the Glen Cove estate from 1912-1918. Modeled after an English garden to accommodate the tastes of Aldred, the 112 acres, known as “Ormston House”, were designed as a gentleman’s estate. The plan included a covered bathhouse, “two tennis courts…just south of a clump of oak trees” and a “greenway extending from the vicinity of the bathhouse across the field to a point where it enters the woods.” [Report by Mr. Dawson_28-02-1913_OAR-B-05578_im.18]

The Tudor-style property was purchased in 1944 by the Ukrainian Catholic Rite Basilian Fathers Josaphat and is now a monastery.