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A brochure advertising '
Whispering Pines', the
Theodore Pratt Sr. estate designed by
Trowbridge & Ackerman c. 1921 in
Lattingtown. Pratt was the son of
Charles Millard Pratt who resided at '
Seamoor'. According to his 1977 obituary, Pratt left New York in 1940 for Gloucester, Virginia along with his wife (
Pauline Maynard Taylor) to restore a colonial house and estate he called '
Little England'. The two opened a daffodil growing business and donated numerous plants to the National Arboretum in D.C. Click
HERE to see '
Whispering Pines' on google earth and
HERE on bing. I assume 'The Larches' was a name given to the estate by a later owner.
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Brochure courtesy of
SPLIA.
2 comments:
Happy New year!!
Even though you don't know I am alive.
This is a beautiful home and the setting is superb. Theodore's father commissioned Greene & Greene of Pasadena to design his winter home in California. A Craftsman masterpiece on a hill overlooking the Ojai valley. An interest in fine architecture seems to have been a family trait.
-- CDR of San Marino (formerly of NYC)
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