[2] Following his marriage to Margaret Shippen McIlvane in 1889, they moved to Oracle, Arizona, and later Asheville, North Carolina, where the weather was more conducive to her lung ailment.
He moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, in 1904 and acquired the Boulderwood estate after Asheville voted in favor of alcohol prohibition.
He continued to work independently on chemistry research and became the owner of 18.4% of the family business, John A. Roebling's Sons, after his father's death in 1926.
A storehouse, constructed to store supplies, was used by his son, Donald Roebling, to develop and test his amtrac, which was planned to help rescue people during hurricanes, but became the basis of the amphibious Landing Vehicle Tracked used during World War II.
[1] Boulderwood is part of the Olcott Avenue Historic District, and Roebling was credited with creating work for needy locals during the Great Depression.