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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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was located across the street from both the E. H. Harriman town house and 1 East 70th Street , a mansion constructed in 1912–1914 by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings , which today houses the ...
In 1938, Gladys Mills Phipps donated the house and 192 acres (78 ha) of land to the state of New York as a memorial to her parents. [3] As a State Historic Site, the estate is operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. In 1988, the Friends of Mills Mansion were organized to support the preservation and ...
Ogden Livingston Mills (August 23, 1884 – October 11, 1937) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Treasury in President Herbert Hoover's cabinet, during which time Mills pushed for tax increases, spending cuts and other austerity measures that would deepen the economic crisis.
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 ...
On Oct. 30, VanWyk opens a new place, Rylee's diner, in Phoenix Mills Plaza. VICTOR, NY — The decision to close Shelly’s Village Cafe was a difficult one, but necessary.
Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park, also known as Mills Memorial State Park, [1] is a 750-acre (3.0 km 2) state park [2] located in Staatsburg in Dutchess County, New York. It is off U.S. Route 9 , between Rhinebeck to the north and Hyde Park to the south, at an elevation of 39 feet (12 m) [ 1 ] above sea level.
Occupied at the time by high-society dropouts "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Beale—aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—and their 52 cats, the crumbling mansion came dangerously close ...
New York City: Today is the Ralph Lauren flagship store [19] [81] more images: William H. Moore House: 1898: Renaissance Revival: McKim, Mead & White: New York City: Formerly the America-Israel Cultural Foundation [62] more images: Oliver Gould Jennings House: 1898: Beaux-Arts: Carrère and Hastings: New York City: Owned by Hamad bin Khalifa Al ...