Villa La Pietra
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Villa La Pietra is a renaissance villa in the hills outside Florence, in Tuscany, central Italy. It was formerly the home of Arthur Acton and later of his son Harold Acton, on whose death in 1994 it w
The Baroque façade of the villa
The cypress avenue leading to the villa
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John J. Mitchell (banker)
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John James Mitchell was an American banker, president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and Illinois Merchants Trust Company.
Villa La Pietra
…as the embassy of Prussia. In 1903, Arthur Acton, an Anglo-Neapolitan art dealer, rented it after his marriage to Hortense Mitchell, the daughter of John J. Mitchell, a banker from Chicago, Illinois, United States. With money from her family, the couple bought the villa in 1907. The villa contains the art collection…
Mitchell's grave