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Apr 27, 2023 · In 1935, American Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, who was living in London with her husband Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, purchased St. Dustan’s Villa, an 1825 Italianate-style white stucco structure.
Apr 4, 2019 · In an archive story from 1961, we visit the Moroccan villa of the troubled American heiress Barbara Hutton, who moved to Tangier after her divorce from her third husband, Cary Grant. 4 April 2019. Anthony Denney. At one time or another most of us have dreamed of a house within an ancient and legendary city in the sun.
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After a fire in 1936, the house and grounds were purchased by Barbara Hutton and the fire-damaged home was then demolished. Winfield House. Hutton commissioned a new mansion to be built in the Neo-Georgian style, which was designed by Leonard Rome Guthrie of the English architectural practice Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie.
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl"—first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930 amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life. [1]
Built in the 1930s by American socialite Barbara Hutton, it was the home she shared with her husband Cary Grant while they lived in the UK. It was named after her grandfather, Frank Winfield Woolworth, the man behind the eponymous stores.
Oct 20, 2017 · The 45,000-square-foot winter home included vast surroundings that held orange groves, tennis courts, a tea pavilion, and extensive formal gardens. A tunnel beneath South Ocean Boulevard led the noble and rich safely to the beachfront pool and luxurious cabanas. A three-story tower, where actress Barbara Hutton once played with her young ...
Aug 28, 2019 · August 28, 2019. The below is excerpted from Hamish Bowles’s introduction to Inside Tangier: Houses & Gardens by Nicolò Castellini Baldissera and Guido Taroni. “Tangier is a basin that holds ...
