William Douglas Sloane was an American businessman, sportsman, philanthropist, and member of New York society during the Gilded Age.
William Douglas Sloane
Advertisement for W. & J. Sloane Furniture from Sept. 1902 editions of Scribner's Magazine.
Sloane Physics Laboratory, the science building funded by Sloane at Yale University.
Equestrian estate in Lee, Massachusetts, acquired from Wellington Smith, father of Elizur Yale, nephew of Senator Smith.
W. & J. Sloane,, was a chain of furniture stores that originated from a luxury furniture and rug store in New York City that catered to the prominent, including the White House and the Breakers, and wealthy, including the Rockefeller, Whitney, and Vanderbilt families.
Flagship store at 19th and Broadway
W. & J. Sloane advertisement from September 1902