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Theresa Alice "Tessie" Fair (June 30, 1871 – November 22, 1926) was an American socialite. She went from being the daughter of a hard-scrabble California miner to become heiress to a fortune in Comstock Lode gold and silver, the wife of steamship magnate Hermann Oelrichs , mistress of the Rosecliff estate in Newport, Rhode Island ...
Built 1902. Rosecliff was built for Nevada silver heiress Theresa Fair Oelrichs, who used it to host many fabulous Gilded Age entertainments. Architect Stanford White modeled Rosecliff after the Grand Trianon, the garden retreat of French kings at Versailles. Buy Tickets Learn more about Rosecliff.
It was built 1898–1902 by Theresa Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress from Nevada, whose father James Graham Fair was one of the four partners in the Comstock Lode. She was the wife of Hermann Oelrichs , American agent for Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship line.
His wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, began the building of Rosecliff when there were already some mighty mansions to surpass. Stanford White designed the house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the...
19 de ene. de 2022 · Theresa Fair Oelrichs. One of the elite ‘Triumvirate’ a group of three women who reportedly took on Mrs Astor's role in New York society after her ‘retirement’, (alongside Alva Vanderbilt, above, and Marion Graves Anthon Fish, below), Theresa Fish Oelrichs had particularly humble origins, being the daughter of a Californian ...
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Theresa Fair Oelrichs, who had inherited a fortune from her father, James Graham Fair, one of the partners in the Comstock Lode, her husband, Hermann Oelrichs, an agent for the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship, and Theresa’s sister Virginia hired McKim, Mead, and White to build them a “summer cottage” in Newport.
8 de ene. de 2020 · Rosecliff was built in 1902 by Theresa Fair Oelrichs (Tessie), a silver heiress from Nevada. The home was designed to be a space for grand scale entertaining, with it’s most prominent feature being the ballroom. She dedicated all of her energy to becoming one of the three great hostesses of Newport.
