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    The Mrs. William B. Astor House was a mansion on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, at 840-841 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of 65th...
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    William Backhouse Astor Jr. (July 12, 1829 – April 25, 1892) was an American businessman, racehorse owner/breeder, and yachtsman who was a member of the...
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    William Backhouse Astor Sr. (September 19, 1792 – November 24, 1875) was an American business magnate who inherited most of his father John Jacob Astor's...
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  • Hellgate Hever Castle Knickerbocker Building Manor House (Sutton Courtenay) Mrs. William B. Astor House Nuits (Irvington, New York) Rokeby (Barrytown, New...
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    rebuilt the house with modified plans. Richard Morris Hunt renovated the estate in 1881 after it was bought the year before by William Backhouse Astor, Jr. Beechwood...
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    businessman John Jacob Astor IV. Madeleine Talmage Force was born on June 19, 1893, in Brooklyn, New York, the younger daughter of William Hurlbut Force (1852–1917)...
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    House, "alternating as hostess on opening night." After her mother's fallout with Carrie's cousin William Waldorf Astor over the use of the name "Mrs...
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    William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist...
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    Jacob Astor and Sarah Cox Todd, whose fortune made the Astor family one of the wealthiest in the United States. Astor's paternal grandfather William Backhouse...
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  • William Waldorf Astor II (1907–1966), Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor (1909–1975), Francis David Langhorne Astor (1912–2001), and Michael Langhorne Astor (1916–1980)...
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    upper class English society. Astor was born in New York City. He was the eldest son of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, and Mary Dahlgren Paul....
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    Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879–1952), British politician and member of the House of Lords. Great-great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, the richest...
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    Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated...
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    constructed to designs of Robert D. Kohn on the former site of the Mrs. William B. Astor House. The vast load-bearing masonry walls support the steel beams...
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    The William A. Clark House, nicknamed "Clark's Folly", was a mansion located at 962 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of its intersection with East...
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    Two Mrs. Grenvilles, the mansion was depicted as one of the characters' residences. The 1976 films The Next Man and Marathon Man both used the house as...
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    were then hospital president John Watts, Philip Livingston, and Gerardus William Beekman. The Governors purchased 5 acres (2.0 ha) in 1771, on elevated...
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    group that included John Jacob Astor III and his wife Charlotte. The hospital appointed as an attending surgeon William B. Coley, who pioneered an early...
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    of Distinction. Brooke Astor Mikhail Baryshnikov Kathleen Battle Andrew Carnegie Walter P. Chrysler Mary Higgins Clark William A. Clark, whose portrait...
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    Wall Street, Fulton Street, Canal Street, Spring Street, Bleecker Street, Astor Place, Grand Central, 86th Street and 125th Street to 525 feet (160 m) to...
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    Americas) in Manhattan, it is served by the 7, D and F trains at all times, the B and M trains on weekdays, and the <7> and <F> trains during rush hours in...
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    hall for upperclassmen located in Cooper Square, a 12-story building to house 270 students In 2017, just under 2,000 students were enrolled representing...
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    List of Gilded Age mansions (category Historic house museums in the United States)
    Service Department of the Interior. Retrieved 20 November 2019. "MRS. WILLIAM ASTOR ENTERTAINS.; Reception at Beechwood, Newport, for Her Granddaughter...
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    : 149  In the same year, the hospital's Board of Managers appointed Dr. William B. Coley as the third Surgeon-in-Chief. It was the first time a general...
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    73.9665989°W / 40.771604; -73.9665989 The Herbert N. Straus House is a large town house at 9 East 71st Street, just east of Fifth Avenue, on the Upper...
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    Leaders in City's Life Hail Accomplishment of Great Task at Meeting at the Astor". The New York Times. August 2, 1918. p. 1. Archived from the original on...
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    billion. In May 2011 alone, half the works for evening sale by major auction houses in New York City were by artists represented by the gallery. Larry Gagosian...
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    November 3, 2024. "Mrs. Gandhi Stops Here On Way to Latin America". The New York Times. September 22, 1968. Retrieved October 31, 2024. "A House on Sutton Place...
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    George J. Gould House built in its place. Notes "A crisp autumn weekend in New York" Bibliography Greg King. The Court of Mrs. Astor In Gilded Age New...
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    trim, on the 76th Street side of the hospital, replacing two apartment houses and several workshops. In December 1931, Winston Churchill was hospitalized...
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