Ardrossan

Author : David Nelson Wren
Publisher : Bauer and Dean Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780983863250
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ardrossan written by David Nelson Wren and published by Bauer and Dean Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly detailed history of the baronial splendor of the Philadelphia Main Line estate Ardrossan and of the Montgomery family who built it. Real-life American counterparts of the Granthams of Downton Abbey, the Montgomerys are best known as the family on which Philip Barry based his 1939 play, The Philadelphia Story, featuring Katharine Hepburn who also starred in the later Hollywood film. The Montgomerys entertained in the grand manner, hosting fox hunts and dinner dances. Guests included diplomat W. Averell Harriman; First Lady Edith Roosevelt; and famed vaudevillians the Duncan sisters.The magnificent estate, still owned by the family, encompassed roughly 760 acres at its height. Located at its center is a magnificent 50-room Georgian style manor house. Essentially unaltered since 1913, the family home designed in 1911 by Horace Trumbauer, one of America's foremost classical architects, stands as a glorious reminder of the halcyon days of the Gilded Age. The first-floor rooms, decorated by the London-based firm of White, Allom, & Company, feature the family's art collection, including works by Gilbert Stuart and Charles Morris Young. The book also chronicles the history of the family's commercial dairy and prized herd of Ayrshires. Features never-before-published architectural drawings from Horace Trumbauer's office and interior photographs shot by Mattie E. Hewitt in the 1930s; as well as family snapshots and images by celebrated photographers Cecil Beaton and Toni Frissell commissioned by Vogue and Country Life. This intimate portrait captures the elegant lifestyle of the Montgomerys and the majesty of their beloved home and estate, Ardrossan.

Author : Arthur Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and Neighbourhood written by Arthur Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janny Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399185038
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beneficiary written by Janny Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."—The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person's self-destruction. Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on—but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime. In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and Academy Award-winning film The Philadelphia Story. For others, including the author's father, she concludes, the impact was more complex. Bringing her journalistic talents, light touch, and crystalline prose to this powerful story of a child's search to understand a parent's puzzling end, Scott also raises questions about our new Gilded Age. New fortunes are being amassed, new estates are being born. Does anyone wonder how it will all play out, one hundred years hence?

Author : Ayrshire Breeders' Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ayrshire Record written by Ayrshire Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ayrshire Breeders' Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ayrshire Herd Record written by Ayrshire Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scotland. Local Government Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Local Government Board for Scotland written by Scotland. Local Government Board and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scotland. Local Government Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Scotland. Local Government Board and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1244 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. H. Godfrey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Field Illustrated written by A. H. Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: