How far would you go to get away from it all? The man who built Two Temple Place faked his own death for a bit of peace and ...

The benefaction took the shape of a magnificent reredos, or altar screen, carved out of Caen marble, and erected to the memory of the father of the giver, William B. Astor. Supplementary to that ...

Once the home of New York City philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor, 40 Mountain Top Road ... details befitting a Classic Revival mansion. Though it might offer its next owner the idyllic ...