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2 giorni fa · The Astor was built by William Waldorf Astor in 1901. Astor hired architects Clinton and Russell to design a two-towered grey brick structure crowned by an elaborate decorative cornice.
3 giorni fa · Back in 1854, William Backhouse Astor Jr. gifted his wife Caroline Astor a parcel of land at 34th Street and 5th Avenue, on which one of the first 5th Avenue mansions was built.
3 giorni fa · While it is the least well-maintained of the surviving Astor buildings, a memento of its high-society origins remains: high above the neglected grounds, the monogram of William Waldorf Astor,...
4 giorni fa · William Waldorf Astor, M.P., latterly 3rd Viscount Astor, 1937–66. No. 46 It has a red-brick and Portland-stone front of minimal neo-Georgian character, for which the elevation was personally approved by the second Duke.
3 giorni fa · Astor Place Theatre Information. An off-Broadway house, found at 434 Lafayette Street in the NoHo section of Manhattan, the theater’s location as one of the only 4 remaining buildings of Colonnade Row, originally a series of 9 linked buildings constructed in 1831, gives it historical significance.
2 giorni fa · The first woman to take her seat as an MP was Conservative Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, elected 28 November 1919. The first female MP to become a cabinet minister was Margaret Bondfield who was appointed Minister of Labour in 1929.
4 giorni fa · In 1903 when William Waldorf Astor set about restoring Hever Castle to its former glory, he added the Astor Wing, to accommodate his family and guests, before creating a lake and the spectacular Italian Garden to house his impressive collection of ancient Greek and Roman statuary.
