Tuesday, June 16, 2009

If you are thinking about a wedding at Rosecliff .... Here is a great story from New York Social Diary


Here is a great story on the history of Rosecliff called,

The Adventures of Tessie


Film buffs are familiar with the house as that of Gatsby’s in the Robert Redford-Mia Farrow film version of Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Called Rosecliff, it was designed and built between 1899 and 1902 by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White for Hermann and Tessie Oelrichs. The beginnings were humble in the classic sense; what could be described as dirt poor. Theresa Alice Fair, known as Tessie, was born in Virginia City, Nevada, daughter of Theresa Rooney, an innkeeper’s daughter and James Graham Fair, a prospector who had emigrated from Belfast, Ireland at the age of twelve.

To Read the article here
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/2551
To rent Rosecliff for you wedding
http://www.newportmansions.org/page3597.cfm
And
http://newportweddings.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-does-it-cost-to-have-wedding-in.html

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