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Eleanor Elkins Widener (née Eleanore Elkins, [note 1] later known as Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice or Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice; c. 1862 –1937) was an American heiress, socialite, philanthropist, and adventuress best remembered for her donation to Harvard University of the Widener Library—a memorial to her elder son Harry Elkins Widener, who (along with her first husband, George ...
Rice on his expedition of the Amazon River in 1919 and 1920 Miramar, the home Eleanor Widener Rice planned with her first husband and completed with her second The yacht Alberta specially modified [7] for the Rices' Amazon explorations, on the North River leaving New York on November 16, 1916 [8] As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in ...
His widow, Eleanor Elkins Widener, survived the sinking; construction continued in 1913 and 1914 and Eleanor Widener hosted a large reception there on August 20, 1915. [ 2 ] The 27-bedroom, 14-bath mansion has a grand salon and ballroom, 27 feet by 63 feet, on the first floor, which opens onto a 4,000-square-foot (370 m 2 ) oceanfront terrace.
The property was still in the design phase of construction when the owner, Philadelphia streetcar magnate George Dunton Widener, traveled with his wife Eleanor Elkins and son Harry to Paris in 1911.
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books, [2] is the centerpiece of the Harvard Library system. It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener soon after his death in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
Eleanor Widener (1891–1966), [14] who married Fitz Eugene Dixon on June 19, 1912. [15] [16] Eleanor sued Dixon for divorce in 1936. [17] [18] [19] After Widener and his son's death aboard the Titanic, a memorial service was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, where stained glass windows were dedicated in their ...
He was the son of banker Fitz Eugene Dixon Sr. [1] and Eleanor Widener (1891-1966), [2] a member of the wealthy Widener family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [3] [4] The Dixons built "Ronaele Manor" ("Eleanor" spelled backward), an Elizabethan mansion, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, where Fitz Jr. grew up.
Lynnewood Hall. Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1900. Considered the largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the Philadelphia area, it housed one of the most important Gilded Age ...