Last week Tessie Oelrichs, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who made millions in the Comstock Lode, turned in her grave. Before she died in 1926 she knew that grand-manner Newport could not ...

Toward the end of her life, Tessie Oelrichs (an heiress thanks to her father's silver mine fortune) often sits alone in her parlor, or one of them anyway, dreaming of those glittering days just ...

When she married Hermann Oelrichs in 1890, Fair gave the couple $1 million as a wedding gift. They commissioned an architect named Stanford White in 1899 to build a summer cottage, and Rosecliff ...

During the Gilded Age, Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer home of Theresa "Tessie" Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress. Oelrichs' father, James Fair, ...

Tessie emerged as a formidable force in the Newport social circles of the late 1890s and hosted many parties during the summer. She often held high-profile events such as ballets, operas, and a ...