Mary Wilson Goelet
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Mary Rita Goelet, known as May Goelet, was an American socialite and member of a family known as "the marrying Wilsons".
The Goelet's New York mansion, 608 Fifth Avenue.
The Goelet's Newport residence, Ochre Court, in 1904.
May's daughter, Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, shortly after her marriage to the 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903.
Ogden Goelet
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Ogden Goelet was an American heir, businessman and yachtsman from New York City during the Gilded Age. With his wife, he built Ochre Court in Newport, Rhode Island, his son built Glenmere mansion, and
Mary Wilson Goelet
…Richard Morris Hunt. In 1947, her son donated Ochre Court to the Sisters of Mercy for the formation of Salve Regina College. In 1877, May married Ogden Goelet (1846–1897). Ogden was the son of Sarah (née Ogden) Goelet and Robert Goelet, both of whom were from prominent New York families and among the wealthiest…
Goelet's schooner Norseman (1881)