John Jacob Astor IV went down with the Titanic ... Design architect Laura Dunn explains: The [house] captures the grandeur of American aristocracy in a single room (main hall: 35 by 60 feet ...
Astor’s will also stated that Madeleine would lose the house and trust fund if she ever remarried, and when she did in 1916, she gave them both up. In the end, John Jacob Astor IV stands as one ...
Although its authenticity was never established, the hand-cut, chestnut-timbered Astor House was generally believed to have been built in the 1780s as a trading post by the Northwestern Fur Co., a ...