The death of brothers Ogden and Robert Goelet near the end of the nineteenth century left vast multi-million estates for their heirs
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The death of brothers Ogden and Robert Goelet near the end of the nineteenth century left vast multi-million estates for their heirs
While the Goelet name is readily associated with number of familiar gilded age mansions and estates, due to them often living within a stones throw of each other and the preponderance of males in the family with the name Robert, sometimes confusing to know which Goelet actually lived where!
It’s an all too familiar story. A gracious older home is purchased in a wealthy enclave or resort frequented by the rich. While seemingly perfectly adequate, it is torn down, replaced by a bigger, brasher mega-mansion seemingly out of context with the landscape, natural beauty, and character of the neighborhood…
