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Alva remarried on January 11, 1896, to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, one of her ex-husband's old friends. [13] Oliver had been a friend of the Vanderbilts since the late 1880s and like William was a great fan of yachting and horse racing. He had accompanied them on at least two long voyages aboard their yacht, the Alva. Scholars have written ...
Construction was still underway when Oliver Belmont died, and Alva announced that she would build an addition that was an exact reproduction of the Gothic Room in Belcourt Castle, to house her late husband's collection of medieval and early Renaissance armor. The room, dubbed The Armory, measured 85 by 24 feet (25.9 by 7.3 m) and was the ...
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument (formerly the Sewall House (1800–1929), Alva Belmont House (1929–1972), and the Sewall–Belmont House and Museum (1972–2016)) is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Photograph of Alva Smith Vanderbilt at her 1883 Ball as "Venetian Renaissance Lady". Alva, the first wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt and second wife of Oliver Belmont, was one of Astor's successors. Photographed by José Maria Mora. Photograph of Mamie Fish, the wife of Stuyvesant Fish, and one of Astor's successors.
Alva Belmont, socialite and suffrage benefactor [11] Mrs. Perry Belmont (Jessie Ann Robbins), wife of the New York politician and diplomat [12] Sarah Bernhardt, actress [13] Elizabeth Lucy Bibesco, English writer and socialite [14] Amelia Bingham, actress [15] Alice Stone Blackwell, suffrage leader and editor [16]
Marble House, a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892. [1]
For the stage production, costume designer Susan Hilferty embedded color into Elphaba's black dresses, a look she told Playbill in 2018 was inspired by "looking at the stones in earth and gems."
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