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Widener had commissioned Horace Trumbauer to design and oversee construction of Miramar, a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) French neoclassical-style mansion bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Intended as a summer home, it was still in the design stage at the time of his death.
Widener was ranked #29 on the American Heritage list of the forty richest Americans in history, with a net worth at death of $23 billion to $25 billion. In 1883, Peter Widener was part of the founding partnership of the Philadelphia Traction Company, and he used the great wealth accumulated from that business to become a founding organizer of U ...
Widener (left) with his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener and architect Horace Trumbauer in Harvard Yard during the planning for Widener Library, c. 1912.. Widener was born into the prominent and wealthy Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the younger son of George Dunton Widener and Eleanor Elkins, and brother to Harry Elkins Widener (1885–1912) and Eleanor Widener Dixon (1891–1966).
The Widener fortune, amassed in the meat-packing and streetcar businesses, saw Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr. listed in Forbes Magazine's 400 Richest Americans in 1985, 1991, and 1995. Dixon bred thoroughbred racehorses at Erdenheim Farm, and was a member and one-time Chairman of the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission.
After his brother George's death in 1912, Widener assumed responsibility for the management of the Widener art collection. He refined the art collection, reduced the number of works and separated the gallery into two distinct sections. He allowed the public to enter Lynnewood Hall to view the art from June to October every year. [8]
According to the late Playboy founder's death certificate, which was obtained by both TMZ and the Daily Mail on Tuesday, Hefner died of cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, septicemia and E. coli ...
The collection had been assembled by Widener and his younger son, Joseph E. Widener. Peter Widener died at Lynnewood Hall at the age of 80 on November 6, 1915, after prolonged poor health. [1] He was predeceased by his elder son George Dunton Widener and grandson Harry Elkins Widener, both of whom died when RMS Titanic sank in 1912.
Joe Dunton, 78, is an English camera innovator who not only is a Member of the Order of the British Empire but is also a revered member of Wilmington's film community despite having moved back to ...