The Thomas Newbold residence designed by McKim, Mead & White c. 1916 at 15 East 79th Street in New York City. Since 1944 the home has operated as the Rudolf Steiner School. Click HERE to see the Newbold residence on google street view.
Photos from Architectural Record, 1919.
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Neither their best nor their worst. Those gilded age moguls certainly liked to style themselves as Italian Renaissance noblement, didn't they?
Thomas Newbold was a cousin of Edith Wharton, no?
Down East ~ it was Newbold Morris who was Edith Wharton's first cousin, and both had houses in Lenox Mass. designed by architect Francis L.V. Hoppin. "Brookhurst" and "The Mount" respectively. As you know, Lenox was 'The Inland Newport' !
I think you are both right. Edith Newbold Jones was related to both Newbold Morris and Thomas Newbold. Here is a link to Senator Thomas Newbold's country place:
http://bigoldhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/presidents-neighbor.html#comment-form
Thank you, ChipSF ! I had forgotten about Thomas Newbold and Bellefield/ Beatrix Farrand connections at Hyde Park. This 'Old Dog' must be getting Older !
I really meant, in my indirect way, that Edith Wharton WAS a cousin of Newbold Morris (I've been re-reading Anthony Powell's "Dance to the Music of Time" for no good reason---and those double negative sentences that he so loved are spilling over into my real time conversaion). Clement Newbold was also a cousin, and had a big place in Bar Harbor, earlier occupied by W.H. Vanderbilt, and directly next door to Wharton's sister-in-law Minnie Jones, mother of Beatrix Farrand.
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