Walk in the footsteps of the Astors, Vanderbilts and other elite New Yorkers who lived during the Gilded Age on this new walking tour. Titled “Fifth Avenue in the Gilded Age: Address to Impress,” the ...

Madeleine Astor, who had been helped into a lifeboat by her husband, presented the watch to Rostron at a luncheon at her ...

Captain Rostron received the gift from Mr Astor’s wife at a lunch at the family’s mansion on Fifth Avenue, New York, according to the auction house. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said ...

Source: Ephemeral NY The Vanderbilt family built a number of mansions on Fifth Avenue in the 1880s ... The newer building was then demolished in 1957. Astor House, which opened in 1836 in lower ...