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It was purchased with 4,000 acres (16 km 2) by Lionel Rothschild in May 1872 as his principal country residence. [16] Waddesdon Manor , near to the market town of Aylesbury , was built in the 1870s, [ 17 ] Further afield, the Rothschild family owned the Exbury estate in Hampshire , known for the Rothschild collection of rhododendrons , azaleas ...
The Rothschild family originated from Frankfurt. The family rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who established his banking business in the 1760s. [1] Rothschild was able to establish an international banking family through his five sons, [2] who established businesses in Paris, Frankfurt, London, Vienna, and Naples.
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The Rothschild family (/ ˈ r ɒ θ (s) tʃ aɪ l d / ROTH(S)-chylde German: [ˈʁoːt.ʃɪlt]) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt.The family's documented history starts in 16th-century Frankfurt; its name is derived from the family house, Rothschild, built by Isaak Elchanan Bacharach in Frankfurt in 1567.
The A. M. Rothschild & Company Store, also known as the Goldblatt's Building, is a historic department store building located at 333 South State Street in the Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The store was built in 1912 for the Rothschild & Company department store, which was founded in the late 1800s by Abram M. Rothschild .
Abram M. Rothschild was born to a Jewish family in 1853 in Nordstetten (today a district of Horb am Neckar), Kingdom of Württemberg, the youngest child in a family of thirteen. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] In 1856, he immigrated to Davenport , Iowa where he joined his brother, Emmanuel, who had founded a retail store. [ 1 ]
Currently there are 124 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Central Chicago, out of more than 350 listings in the City of Chicago.Central Chicago includes 3 of the 77 well-defined community areas of Chicago: the historic business and cultural center of Chicago known as the Loop, as well as the Near North Side and the Near South Side.
The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty a book by Frederic Morton, telling of the rise of the Rothschild family from humble beginnings in Germany; The Rothschilds, a 1970 musical with a book by Sherman Yellen, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock; The House of Rothschild, a 1934 American film directed by Alfred L. Werker