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 his daughter, Mary Goelet, married Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe.
Ogden Goelet's mansion at 608 Fifth Avenue, designed by E.H. Kendall
Goelet's Newport residence, Ochre Court in 1904
Goelet's schooner Norseman (1881)
The Glenmere mansion is a luxury hotel and spa overlooking Glenmere Lake, approximately 50 miles northwest of New York City in Orange County, New York. It was built in 1911 as the residence of real estate developer Robert Wilson Goelet on the grounds of his sprawling estate in Sugar Loaf, a hamlet of the town of Chester.
The wall pools of Glenmere's southern garden, c. 1920