Theresa Fair Oelrichs
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Theresa Alice "Tessie" Fair was an American socialite. She went from being the daughter of a hard-scrabble California miner to become heiress to a fortune in Comstock Lode gold and silver, the wife of
Theresa “Tessie” Fair Oelrichs
Rosecliff's dining room in the Louis XVI style, 1905.
Rosecliff's staircase, 1905.
Rosecliff's rear steps.
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
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Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn Astor was an American socialite who led the Four Hundred, high society of New York City in the Gilded Age. Referred to later in life as "the Mrs. Astor" or simply
Theresa Fair Oelrichs
…and brother of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, in a wedding that was extensively covered in the society pages. After the "retirement" of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (the "Mrs. Astor"), Tessie ruled American society as one of the so-called Triumvirate, made up of herself, Mamie Fish and Alva Belmont. Where Alva was…
An illustration of Astor, c. 1853–1860
Portrait of Caroline Webster Schermerhorn in 1860
Ferncliff, the Astor family's country estate in Rhinebeck, New York
Beechwood, the Astors' summer home in Newport, Rhode Island