Madeleine Astor was the queen of New York’s high society when she boarded the Titanic with her new husband, John Jacob Astor ...

Famed artist Maxfield Parrish was a Quaker and teetotaler who was hesitant to decorate a watering hole, but he couldn’t resist the $5,000 commission being offered by John Jacob Astor IV in 1906 ...

There’s never been a plaque on the gray stone and slate residence at the northwest corner of Saint Paul and 29th streets. But ...

The wealthy owners of Staatsburgh, a historic Gilded Age mansion outside New York City, had tickets for the Titanic's second ...

Its Gilded Age allure is right at home inside a historic hotel founded by 19th-century tycoon John Jacob Astor IV ... is a portal to 1920s Paris. Art Deco flourishes run from the tulip-shaped ...

On Saturday, April 5th, at 10:00 a.m. the Erie Canal Museum will host a 2025 Sloan Lecture at the Chittenango Middle School ...

Explore the tragic story of the RMS Titanic’s maiden voyage, which began on 10 April 1912 and ended in disaster. Discover the ...

Among the victims was one of the world's richest men, John Jacob Astor. As a new luxury ocean liner, the Titanic attracted some of the wealthiest and most prominent members of American society.

The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912. Here are some facts you might not have known about the ship, its crew, and the discovery of the ship.

John Jacob Astor, and railway magnate Charles M Hays as well as British aristocrat Countess of Rothes, the eminent journalist WT Stead and noted couturière "Lucile," Lady Duff Gordon. First-class ...