Robert Wilson Goelet
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Robert Wilson Goelet was an American social leader, banker, and real estate developer who built Glenmere mansion.
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His parents' New York mansion at 608 Fifth Avenue
The wall pools of Glenmere's southern garden, c. 1920
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".
Robert Wilson Goelet
…February 6, 1966) was an American social leader, banker, and real estate developer who built Glenmere mansion. Goelet was born in 1880. He was the son of Mary Wilson Goelet (1855–1929), a leader of New York and Newport society, and Ogden Goelet (1846–1897), a prominent heir and landlord in New York City who was the…
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.