Once upon a time, the site was owned by John Jacob Astor, whose son ... and often called the most important real estate developers in the city at the time. Bing & Bing brought in architects ...

In that capacity he helped look after many legal details connected with the huge real estate holdings of Vincent’s father, John Jacob Astor. In 1912 Vincent was at Harvard—where Franklin ...

20s-30s): Plays KATE MULLINS (Irish 3rd class passenger), MADELEINE ASTOR (American 1st class passenger, socialite, and wife of real estate magnate John Jacob Astor IV), and a STEWARDESS Track 20 ...

Lucile and Willie Carter perhaps never quite achieved the fame of other Titanic passengers: Molly “Unsinkable” Brown, John Jacob Astor IV ... The neighboring estate was Ardrossan, which ...

The home is named as such because John Jacob Astor IV founded the original St. Regis Hotel in 1904. MORE: The New School Cuts Price on Manhattan Townhouse in Half Construction on the 55-acre ...

In that case, the 14-carat object belonged to the wealthiest passenger on the Titanic, John Jacob Astor, whose net worth was around $87 million when the disaster happened in 1912, according to the ...

In a previous sale, the same auction house sold a pocket watch recovered from John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest man on board the Titanic, for GBP 900,000 (₹9.4 crore INR). Though less opulent ...

Millionaire John Jacob Astor, age 47, whose family built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and whose worth at the time was more than $2.2 billion in today’s dollars, was aboard the ship.