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 steamship magnate Hermann Oelrichs, mistress of the Rosecliff estate in Newport, Rhode Island, and a member of the elite "Triumvirate" of American society."
Oelrichs (seated) with her son standing on left, c. 1910
Rosecliff's dining room in the Louis XVI style, 1905.
Rosecliff's staircase, 1905.
Rosecliff's rear steps.
Hermann Oelrichs was an American businessman, multimillionaire, and agent of Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping.
Hermann Oelrichs
The Oelrichs' Newport estate, Rosecliff.