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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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