Robert Walton Goelet
Robert Walton Goelet was born in New York City, New York, United States on March 19th, 1880 and is the American Businessman. At the age of 61, Robert Walton Goelet biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Upon the death of his mother in 1915, he inherited a fortune estimated to be $40 million (equivalent to $750 million in 2021), which included 591 Fifth Avenue (a brownstone built in 1880 by Edward H. Kendall at the southeast corner of 48th Street) and her estate at Ochre Point in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Stanford White and built between 1882 and 1884 and known as "Southside". He was a sportsman and the leader of the city's old-money social set. He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Goelet served as a director of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company for many years. He was also a member of the advisory board and director of the Chemical National Bank and Trust Company, a director of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, chairman of the board of directors of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Corporation and a director of the Union Pacific Railroad Corporation.
In 1908, he purchased the 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) Sandricourt estate, the former residence of the Marquis de Beauvoir, on the outskirts of Paris. The estate, where he spent much of his time, which he purchased for $300,000, had 139 buildings, grain fields and herds of cattle. He also owned a fishing lodge on the Restigouche River, which separates New Brunswick from Quebec (which he left to his children).
He inherited vast real estate holdings in New York, sometimes known as the Goelet Realty Company, which included the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and the property between 52nd and 53rd Streets on Park Avenue which the Racquet and Tennis Club leased. Among his other New York holdings were the southeast corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, 14 Sutton Place South, 1400 Broadway, 53 Broadway, and the building on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 37th Street (which he bought in 1909). He also owned sixteen four-story townhouses on Park Avenue built by his father in 1871.
After Goelet's death in 1941, his estate leased the land on which the sixteen townhouses were built, which were torn down and replaced by 425 Park Avenue, which, at the time of the construction, it was one of the tallest buildings that utilized the bolted connections. The 32-story building was open in 1957 with National Biscuit Company, Kaye Scholer, Chemical Corn Exchange Bank as major tenants. It too was torn down and replaced by a new tower at 425 Park designed by architect Lord Norman Foster, still on land owned by the Goelet family.