{"nrhp_refnum":"79001594","name":"Aldred, John E., Estate","other_names":["Ormston","St. Josephat's Monastery"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Lattingtown Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lattingtown","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.894138012500065,"lon":-73.61567423264458,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 117-acre Gold Coast estate known as Ormston in Lattingtown, Nassau County, New York, with a Tudor Revival limestone mansion, formal gardens and many outbuildings. It was designed in 1916 for industrialist John E. Aldred and is now St. Josephat's Monastery.","why_significant":"The nomination calls Ormston one of the major Gold Coast estates to survive intact, typical of estate building on Long Island's North Shore in the early twentieth century. It was designed by the prominent Gothicist Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, with grounds by the Olmsted Brothers. Aldred was a self-made industrialist and pioneer in hydroelectric power.","narrative":"Ormston, on Lattingtown Road in Nassau County, is a 117-acre Gold Coast estate built for John E. Aldred, a self-made industrialist who pioneered hydroelectric power. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue designed the seventy-four-room Tudor Revival mansion in 1916. It is built of quarry-faced limestone with a heavy slate roof, an asymmetrical plan and about a dozen chimney stacks. The Olmsted Brothers laid out the grounds, which include formal gardens, a lilac walk, a garden house, two gatehouses and many Tudor-style outbuildings, all enclosed by a stone wall. Aldred and William D. Guthrie bought and cleared land in 1910 to obtain their views. After Aldred lost his businesses, his art and furnishings were auctioned in 1940, and the estate was sold in 1944 to the Order of St. Basil the Great. The order's ownership has protected the grounds from encroachment. The estate is regarded as one of the most impressive Gold Coast properties to survive intact.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (architect); Olmsted Brothers (landscape architects)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in excellent or good condition as a monastery and novitiate owned by a religious order; the grounds are somewhat overgrown but largely intact, and no major alterations have been made to the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.090318-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001594.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001594/fa729c043f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001594/fa729c043f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Ormston,%22_John_Edward_Aldred_house,_East_Beach_Drive,_Glen_Cove,_New_York._Fountain_LCCN2008680046.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Ormston,%22_John_Edward_Aldred_house,_East_Beach_Drive,_Glen_Cove,_New_York._Fountain_LCCN2008680046.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319069","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Aldred_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706657"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/aldred-john-e-estate-79001594/"}