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After less than a year's ownership and rare visits to it, Torchsinger Gertrude Niesen's parents sold the fabulous marble villa in Newport that mother had said she was buying daughter for a birthday present. Famed as "the Tessie Oelrichs mansion," it cost some $2,500,000...
When the "Tree of Hope" (supposed to provide an immediate job for any actor who touched it) was knocked down on a Harlem street corner where it grew, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson joined the frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks...
Last week Tessie Oelrichs, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who made millions in the Comstock Lode, turned in her grave. Before she died in 1926 she knew that grand-manner Newport could not retain its grandeur. Perhaps she could imagine it slowly falling apart. Each year something happened to...
Among all Newport's stately summer palaces, the pride and grandeur of the Oelrichs house, Rosecliff, stood out for almost 40 years as one of the most glittering white elephants of them all. Built at a cost of 2,500,000 solid turn-of-the-century dollars, this summer...
Hermann Oelrichs was no exception. His wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, began the building of Rosecliff when there were already some mighty mansions to surpass. Stanford White designed the house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party...