They didn't stay long, he left for Italy where he died just the following year. Almost immediately the heartbroken Maggie moved out and relocated to Ventfort Hall, leasing their apartments to the newly-founded Women’s City Club.įrom 1920, the club relocated and that year the retired opera tenor, Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), moved in with his socialite wife, Dorothy - twenty years his junior. Fortune had intervened for Freddy in 1912 when he decided at the last moment not to board the ill-fated Titanic, but he wasn't so lucky in 1915 when the ship on which he was sailing to London, Lusitania, was torpedoed by the Germans and Freddy went down with it having given away his lifejacket to a young mother. He married Manuela Mercedes Hudson on 8 June 1938, in Long Island, New York, United States.
The New-York Tribune described their apartments as being, “the equivalent of a complete town house". was born on 22 September 1912, in London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr., was 34 and his mother, Margaret Mary Emerson, was 28. The insurance report concluded that the "intensely hot fire" was confined to, "a relatively small space due to the architects and engineers forward thinking designs".įreddy married his second wife, Maggie Emerson, in 1911 and they moved in to the top two floors the following year. Aside from the luxury it afforded, the hotel was also touted to be fireproof and found itself unexpectedly tested just three days after opening when a fire broke out on the 4th floor.
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