Robert Goelet

[2] He had a younger brother, Ogden Goelet, who married society leader Mary Rita Wilson and built Ochre Court in Newport, Rhode Island.

[1] In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as: "He was clear-headed and keen-witted, and his judgment in financial and real estate matters invariably commanded the respect of other business men.

He was a man of progressive ideas, and throughout his business career pursued a policy of improving his properties in a manner which would beautify the city.

[1] After his death, it was used extensively for summer cruising in European waters by his son, Robert Walton Goelet, who lent the yacht at no cost to the United States Navy.

[18] After the funeral, his body was again taken "by special train over the New Haven Road", and was buried in the Goelet Mausoleum, which had been completed only days before, at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.