A Summary Of Tuxedo Park

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Tuxedo Park has been home to famous and fascinating people: Waldorf Astor, Augustus Juilliard, Dorothy Draper and Emily Post, to name a few. This book tells the colorful stories of the many individuals and families who created Tuxedo Park from 1886 through the mid-1940s. From Gilded-Age luminaries to the skillful immigrant craftsmen who forged the village’s historic buildings, private diaries and oral accounts are woven into the region’s uncirculated written records. TUXEDO PARK: Lives, Legacies, Legends is illustrated with 150 previously unpublished historical images drawn from family, museum, and government

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