AMERICAN SOCIALITE, ARLENE TEW Born in 1872, Arlene Tew was a - TopicsExpress



          

AMERICAN SOCIALITE, ARLENE TEW Born in 1872, Arlene Tew was a member of the DAR, The Daughters of the American Revolution, signaling that her direct ancestors fought in the American Revolutionary War. With a large inheritance of her own, she proceeded to marry five husbands including the Chairman of General Electric, Anson Wood Buchard, one Prince and one Count. Long one of the wealthiest American women of her time when, when married to husband number two, Morton Colton Nichols, she commissioned C.P.H. Gilbert in 1905 to design her New York residence at 57 East 64 Street, replacing two smaller townhouses with a massive limestone mansion in the style of Neo-Francois I with a magnificent four story curved bay.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:20:38 +0000

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