Word: killenworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manor houses was Killenworth, a million dollars in stone and granite, Tudor style, with 39 paneled rooms, 13 baths, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold...
...Exclusives. The Russian purchase (for a rumored $120,000) was on behalf of 200 employes of Amtorg, Soviet commercial agency in the U.S. At Killenworth, the new manor lords would find rest, recreation and, above all, isolation...
...Glen Cove the Russians will have even less contact with the natives. Last fall they leased the late J. P. Morgan's $2,500,000 East Island estate, which adjoins Killenworth. Local folk said they saw as little of the exclusive comrades as of the haughty Morgans and Pratts...