Along Long Island’s Gold Coast, in Lloyd Neck, New York, a modern glass house now sits on two waterfront acres that were once part of a much larger property owned by 1936 bronze medal-winning Olympic bobsledder Gilbert Bayard Colgate, the great-grandson of industrialist William Colgate, founder of what would become the Colgate-Palmolive company.
The new build, designed by Philip Rossillo of PRDG Architecture + Design, forgoes the traditional mansions long associated with this…

