Quest August 2015

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A S TO R FA M I LY a n icon ic p ort fol io 1836 - 2015

“Could I begin life again, knowing what I know now, I would buy every foot of land on the island of Manhattan.” -John Jacob Astor This page, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (son of Charlotte and John Jacob Astor III); 75th Street and Broadway in 1745; and in 1857; Waldorf=Astoria; the home of Caroline Astor—or, the Mrs. Astor—at 65th Street and Fifth Avenue; John Jacob Astor IV (son of Caroline and William Backhouse Astor, Jr.); St. Regis Hotel; Hotel Astor; John Jacob Astor—the first of the Astors in the United States

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL, 1836

THE ASTOR OPERA HOUSE, 1847

ASTOR PLACE 1848

THE ASTOR LIBRARY, 1854

THE WALDORF HOTEL, 1893


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