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    Beechwood is a Gilded Age mansion and estate located at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island best known for having been owned by the Astor family...
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    Katherine Arvilla Talmage. Astor and Force were married in his mother's ballroom at Beechwood, the family's Newport, Rhode Island, mansion. There was also much...
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  • summer house, Beechwood. At Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, there are the Lord and Lady Astor Suites; the hotel salon is called Astor's. There is even...
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    Astor" or simply "Mrs. Astor", she was the wife of yachtsman William Backhouse Astor Jr. They had five children, including Colonel John Jacob Astor IV...
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    married by a Congregationalist minister in Beechwood, his Newport mansion. His son William Vincent Astor served as best man. After their marriage, they...
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  • Beechwood, Wisconsin Beechwood (Astor mansion), Newport, Rhode Island Beechwood (Isaac Kinsey House), Washington Township, Indiana Beechwood (Southbridge, Massachusetts)...
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  • death, Madeleine raised their son at the Astors' Newport, Rhode Island, mansion, Beechwood, as part of the Astor family. She married banker William Karl...
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    Ava Lowle Willing (redirect from Ava Astor)
    Ferncliff in Rhinebeck, New York, and Beechwood, their Newport, Rhode Island, mansion. By 1896, Mrs. Ava Astor had become socially active in England....
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    neighbored Beechwood, the Newport estate of Astor's brother, William Backhouse Astor Jr. and his wife Caroline, known as "The Mrs. Astor", who ruled...
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    Cliveden (category Astor family residences)
    dukes, an earl, and finally the Viscounts Astor. As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the Cliveden...
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    again, and the elaborate Marble House was built next door to Mrs. Astor's Beechwood. Alva's ostentatious displays of wealth helped to fuel American public...
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  • privacy of the den of his mansion at Newport, Rhode Island. After renting Beechwood for a number of years from Vincent Astor, he bought Fairholme, the...
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    with André Parmentier helping to design the grounds. In 1840, John Jacob Astor purchased the property from Hosack's heirs for his daughter Dorothea and...
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    the Interior. Retrieved 20 November 2019. "MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR ENTERTAINS.; Reception at Beechwood, Newport, for Her Granddaughter, Miss Van Alen" (PDF)...
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  • the 100,000 sq ft mansion of Edward T. Stotesbury designed by Horace Trumbauer outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Beechwood: a mansion and the former residence...
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  • Information". Jamestown Information. Retrieved 30 August 2015. "Astors Beechwood mansion in Newport may be sold for $10.5 million". The Providence Journal...
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    Oelrich's parties was the "Bal blanc" of 19 August 1904 to celebrate the Astor Cup Races, in which everything was white and silver. Mrs. Oelrich died at...
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    Shadows and the 1972 Merchant Ivory film Savages were filmed at the Beechwood mansion in Scarborough. Bed of Roses was released in 1996, and was filmed...
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    Bellevue Avenue Historic District (category Historic mansion districts)
    above the cliffs at Ochre Point on the eastern shore. The Astors expanded the 1856 Beechwood to suit their needs. These houses and their occupants made...
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    subwoofer. In early 2010, Ellison purchased the Astors' Beechwood Mansion – formerly the summer home of the Astor family – in Newport, Rhode Island, for $10...
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    wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; Mr. and Mrs. E. Sheldon Whitehouse; the Astors; and Count Anthony and Countess Sylvia Szapary of the Vanderbilt family...
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    at the Astor Mansion on Fifth Avenue and was the grandson of Mrs. Astor of Beechwood. The Bissell couple resided on Park Avenue, New York. Pelham Jr. served...
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    Beechwood, co-designed by Waugh mentor Andrew Jackson Downing, was once an Astor family mansion and is now a historic house museum in Newport, Rhode Island...
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    citizen of New York” and his wife Helen Suydam Cutting, niece to Caroline Astor, would frequent the manor house and estate as both William and Robert were...
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  • inspired by Ryan's experiences working on the event staff at the Astor's Beechwood Mansion. Ryan's third novel, The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare...
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    few pals from the summer colony's social elite, men such as John Jacob Astor IV, Perry Belmont, and Cornelius Vanderbilt II - to purchase the 140-acre...
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    property of Beechwood.: 160  The two men assembled a board of directors to form a country club, including future Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, coal...
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    house in 1860 as a summer home. Schermerhorn was a first cousin of Mrs. Astor (formerly Caroline Webster Schermerhorn), one of Newport's most active hostesses...
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  • little spooked by what they find. 18 8 "Beechwood Mansion & Garden State" Newport, Rhode Island – Astor Mansion Unknown locale, New Jersey – private residence...
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    York, US. The property had been bought in 1900 by John Jacob Astor IV and remained in the Astor family until 1964, when it was donated as a forest preserve...
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