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Helen Marie Brach (née Voorhees; born November 10, 1911 – disappeared February 17, 1977) was an American multimillionaire widow whose wealth had come from marrying into the E. J. Brach & Sons Candy Company fortune; she endowed the Helen V. Brach Foundation to promote animal welfare in 1974. [1]
The commission was given to McKim, Mead, and White in 1898, and the New York branch of Jules Allard and Sons were engaged as interior decorators. Construction started in 1899, but the sharp winter slowed construction; Mrs. Oelrichs' sister had married William K. Vanderbilt II that winter season, and the house was required for parties in the following Newport season; the eager Mrs. Oelrichs ...
Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, was built for a silver heiress during the Gilded Age. It measures 28,800 square feet and features 30 rooms, including Newport's largest ballroom.
more images: Branch House: 1916: Tudor Revival, Jacobean Revival: John Russell Pope with Otto R. Eggers: Richmond: Offices of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) and the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design. [152] [19] more images: Westbourne: 1919: Georgian Revival: W. Duncan Lee: Richmond
In 1984, seven years after she disappeared, Helen Brach was declared legally dead. In 1997, the connections between her death and the conspiracy involving socially prominent horse owners and their hired horse killers became the subject of a true crime book, Hot Blood: The Money, the Brach Heiress, the Horse Murders, written by Ken Englade. [2]
[17] In 2011, HGTV aired a program titled Selling Spelling Manor that included a tour of the house and documented Candy's process of selling the home to Ecclestone. [18] In 2006, the house was discussed in Aaron's obituary: Mr. Spelling himself, though a self-effacing and extremely shy man in private, put his own vast wealth on display in the ...
An old home on the Mary Duke Biddle estate is scheduled to go up in flames Friday. The crumbling structure at 1415 Bivins St. is being destroyed to make way for new homes, and the Durham Fire ...
Emil Julius Brach (May 11, 1859 − October 29, 1947) was the founder of Brach's Confections, an American candy company. Brach was born in 1859 in Schoenwald, Grand Duchy of Baden, to Martin and Wilhelmina Brach. [1] The family migrated to Burlington, Iowa, in 1866. As a young man, he attended Burlington Business College and then managed a ...