Posts Tagged ‘mansion’
A heartbreaking visit to Lynnewood Hall
A while back I wrote about Lynnewood Hall, a mansion outside Philadelphia designed and built for Peter Widener, American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the Widener family. Planned after Prior Park in Bath, England, the mansion was said to have cost eight million dollars to build. Widener was the father of George Widener who died…
Read MoreMadeleine Astor ~ a tragedy within a tragedy
In my novel Sheltering Angel, based on a true story of the Titanic disaster, my characters Florence and Bradley Cumings spend time with John Jacob Astor and his young wife Madeleine. In many accounts of the maritime tragedy, Madeleine’s story ends in that spring of 1912—but her tale grows even more tragic as time passes.…
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