William Vincent Astor was not interested in his grandfather's Florida enterprises, and so the Astor family's interests in the area were sold.
From her locations Mrs. Strong created papers for the Duke of Windsor and Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor, Barbara Hutton, the Rockefeller, Astor, Vanderbilt, and DuPont families, as well as Bette Davis, Diana Vreeland, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Barbara Paley, and other icons of style.
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It originally called for a nine-story academic building to replace the Hewitt Building, a fifteen-story office complex to replace the engineering building, the removal of Taras Shevchenko Place (a tiny street honoring a Ukrainian folk hero between St. George’s Ukrainian Church and the site), and the development of a parking lot on 26 Astor Place and an empty lot on Stuyvesant Street into a hotel or for another commercial tenant.
In 1947, Saunderson's great-grandson, also named Alexander, married Louise Astor Van Alen, granddaughter of James John Van Alen and grandniece of RMS Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV, and the ex-wife of two different Georgian Mdivani princes.
In Jonathan Lethem's book, Chronic City (2009), the protagonist meets another character in the Astor Court, and, separately, another character mentions having shared a kiss there.
The Astor Expedition of 1810-1812, was the next overland expedition from St. Louis, Missouri to the mouth of the Columbia River after the Corps of Discovery, led by Lewis and Clark.
The Astor Historic District is made up of what was once the Town of Astor, founded in 1835 by John Jacob Astor.
Designed by architect Herbert Tullgren in Classical Revival style, the Astor Hotel was built in 1920 by developer Oscar Brachman for hotel tycoon Walter Schroeder.
Astor's biggest success was undoubtedly Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960), which was a huge box-office hit for the company, and allowed it to continue to release foreign films such as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960), François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Orson Welles' The Trial (1962).
Designed in Greek Revival style and fronted by imposing marble columns, the buildings served as residences for the Astor and Vanderbilt families, and are among the oldest structures in the city.
Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Beaulieu House, Newport, private former home of John Jacob Astor III, Cornelius Vanderbilt III and his wife Grace Vanderbilt
Gwathmey's firm designed the Museum Of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Florida in 1995, and the Astor Place Tower, a 21-story condominium project in Manhattan's East Village, in 2005.
The landmark Astor Hotel that served as an anchor for the development of Times Square, the Astor Apartments, the Graham Court Apartments, and The Apthorp were among their projects for William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor.
In 2013 he edited the book "Astor Place - Broadway - New York" about a barber shop, one of the last stores remaining from the 1940s in Lower Manhattan, with photographs by Nicolaus Schmidt.
In 1880 he married a wealthy American heiress, born Margaret Laura Astor Carey (1853–1911), a granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor, Sr. of the prominent Astor family.
During World War I, she was posted at Cliveden, Lady Astor's estate, and became matron of the Moore Barracks Hospital at Shorncliffe Army Camp where thousands of Canadian soldiers were treated.
The following year he joined Astor Piazzolla’s Octeto Buenos Aires with the bandoneons of Piazzolla and Roberto Pansera (later replaced by Leopoldo Federico), the violin of Hugo Baralis, the cello of José Bragato, the double bass of Aldo Nicolini (later replaced by Juan Vasallo), the electric guitar of Horacio Malvicino and the piano of Atilio Stampone.
In July 2006, Seitel was retained by Philip Marshall, the grandson of New York society heiress Brooke Astor, in a dispute with his father, Anthony Marshall, over the treatment of Astor.
These derive from voyageurs working for John Baptiste DuBay, who ran a trading post for the John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company near Fort Winnebago, and built a pioneering trading post and homestead near Knowlton.
Meader was a member of the Harvard Club, the Strollers Club, the Astor Masonic Lodge, the National Geographic Society and the New York Southern Society.
When their dispute became public, the press baron agreed to sell the paper to William Waldorf Astor, who accepted Garvin's proposal to assume ownership on condition that Garvin edit the Astor-owned Pall Mall Gazette as well.
In 1919, Kuser married 17-year-old Brooke Russell (later known as Brooke Astor), and they had a child, Anthony.
Astor's name is shown on one of the page buttons on an apartment building in Mel Brooks' 2005 movie musical The Producers.
The lecture was introduced by Lord Astor of Hever John Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, the United Kingdom government's Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Defense) and the Commandant Royal College of Defence Studies Vice Admiral Charles Style.
--In 1911, she was rumored to be engaged to William Vincent Astor, who would later die on the Titanic.--> In 1915 she married Morgan Belmont (1892–1953), the son of August Belmont, at her parents' home, Rockery Hall.
Wilson's eldest daughter, Mary (also called May) married New York landowner Ogden Goelet (they were the parents of Mary Goelet) and his youngest daughter, Grace, married Cornelius Vanderbilt III; his son Orme was married to the daughter of Mrs. William Astor, "the" Mrs. Astor.
In front of the balcony was Mrs. Astor's statue of Venus; around it were several potted plants and a small marble waterfall.
The story revolves around a love triangle, set on a rubber plantation most likely located in Cochinchina (southern French Indochina) during the monsoon season, between the plantation's owner/manager Dennis Carson (Gable), a prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), and Barbara Willis (Astor), the wife of an engineer named Gary Willis (Raymond).
Writer Gerard Henderson has rejected this theory, but history professors Judith Brett and Joan Beaumont support Day, as does Menzies' daughter, Heather Henderson, who claimed Lady Astor "even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England".
She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor is a 1940 comic song by Don Raye and Hugh Prince and was recorded by Dick Robertson, Pearl Bailey and the British bandleader and clarinetist Harry Roy.
The term commonly includes the so-called "blue bloods" (multi-generational wealth combined with leadership of high society) such as the Astor or Roosevelt families.
Following the split, Peter Astor embarked upon a solo career, and later recorded as Wisdom of Harry and Ellis Island Sound, while the two remaining members joined The Rockingbirds.
In 1932, Astor was appointed secretary to Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, League of Nations Committee of Enquiry in what was then known as Manchuria.
In the lead-up to the 2005 general election, Astor had an extra-marital affair with Rachel Whetstone, wife of the Conservative strategist Steve Hilton.
William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (1792–1875), businessman and member of the Astor family