Along with his wife Millicent, Carey worked to preserve and restore Historic mansions of the Gilded Age on the Gold Coast of Long Island and in Newport, Rhode Island. They bought a 22-room house in Lloyd Harbor, New York before purchasing Winfield Hall set on 16 acres in Glen Cove in 1978. Note: This includes and Accompanying 15 photographs The home, which is also known as the Woolworth Estate, was designed in 1916 by architect C. P. H. Gilbert for Frank Winfield Woolworth, reportedly at a cost of $9 million. Parts of the 25,668 square-foot mansion were heavily damaged by fire in January 2015.
