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Mills House No. 1 is one of two survivors of three men's hotels built by banker Darius Ogden Mills in New York City (the other being Mills Hotel No. 3). [1] It originally contained 1,554 tiny rooms (7 and a half by 6 feet or 5 by 8 feet) that rented at the affordable rate of 20 cents a night, with meals costing 15 cents, [2] [3] The rooms contained only a bed with a mattress and two pillows ...
Darius Ogden Mills and family (c. 1890) with Whitelaw Reid and J. P. Morgan at the Millbrae estate—present-day Millbrae, California Millbrae estate (1869–1954), image from c. 1895. Darius Ogden Mills (September 25, 1825 – January 3, 1910) was a prominent American banker and philanthropist. For a time, he was California's wealthiest ...
Darius Ogden Mills. Mills Bank Building, also called the D. O. Mills Bank Building, is a historical bank in Sacramento, California, built in 1852 in Old Sacramento. It is a California Historical Landmark No. 609, registered on May 22, 1957. It was built by Darius Ogden Mills and was the oldest and largest bank of early California. [1]
Completed in 1892, Marble House measures 140,000 square feet and has 50 rooms. ... New York, belonged to socialite Ruth Livingston Mills and her financier husband, Ogden Mills. Staatsburgh.
The house was inherited in 1844 by Morgan Lewis's daughter Margaret and her husband Maturin Livingston; and in 1847 by the couple's son Maturin Livingston Jr. (1816–1888). In 1890, Ruth Livingston Mills, the great-granddaughter of Morgan Lewis and the mother of Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, inherited the estate. [3]
However, many of the Herter Brothers’ original furnishings were dispersed between 1915 and 1916, when the house was redecorated. [ 5 ] At 634 Fifth Avenue, in 1880–1882, they decorated the mansion of Darius Ogden Mills, on the site of part of Rockefeller Center now occupied by the colossal bronze Atlas.
Ruth Livingston (1855–1920), who married financier Ogden Mills (1856–1929), the son of banker and philanthropist Darius Ogden Mills. [23] Livingston died at the residence of his son-in-law at 2 East 69th Street in New York City on November 29, 1888. [13] In 1916, his widow's address was listed at 4 East 69th Street in New York. [24]
The Ogden Mills House was designed by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt and overlooked Central Park.It was constructed at the corner of East 69th Street and Park Avenue in the Upper East Side for Ogden Mills between 1885 and 1887.