{"nrhp_refnum":"79001593","name":"Woolworth Estate","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"77 Crescent Beach Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glen Cove","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.875151211500054,"lon":-73.64356502656392,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A sixteen-acre country estate at 77 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove, Nassau County, New York, centered on the Italian Renaissance-style mansion Winfield Hall. It was designed in 1916 by C.P.H. Gilbert for F.W. Woolworth.","why_significant":"The estate represents the opulent 'Gold Coast' era of Long Island's North Shore and is a classic example of the second phase of American estate building, with a restrained classical exterior and lavish historically styled interiors. It is one of the most significant surviving works of Beaux Arts architect C.P.H. Gilbert. It is also tied to Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder of the five-and-ten-cent store chain, and survives largely intact.","narrative":"Winfield Hall and its surrounding grounds form a sixteen-acre estate on Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove, built from 1916 for five-and-ten-cent store founder F.W. Woolworth. Architect C.P.H. Gilbert designed the marble-clad, I-shaped Italian Renaissance mansion, which has a balustraded parapet, a monumental west portico and a vast formal interior. Rooms were decorated in a variety of historical styles, including a walnut-paneled library, a music room that still holds Woolworth's Aeolian organ, and a French Second Empire bedroom. The grounds retain a stone entrance arch, a formal garden with a tea house, an ornamental wall with a Palladian niche, an eighteen-car garage with a tower, and greenhouses. The property reflects the early twentieth-century shift from rambling wooden summer houses to stone villas with restrained exteriors and lavish interiors. Woolworth was closely involved in the design and died at the house in 1919. Its largely intact buildings and landscape recall Long Island's Gold Coast estate era.","period_of_significance":"1916-1920","architect_builder":"Charles P.H. Gilbert, arch.","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition, altered, occupied and privately owned; the garage interior has been remodeled while its exterior survives intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.188279-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001593.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001593/b16297a1fb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001593/b16297a1fb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GC_Woolworth_Estate;_Carey_Arch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GC_Woolworth_Estate;_Carey_Arch.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworth_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q664760"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/woolworth-estate-79001593/"}