Rutherfurd Stuyvesant or Stuyvesant Rutherfurd was an American socialite and land developer from New York, best known as the inheritor of the Stuyvesant fortune.
11 Facts About Rutherfurd Stuyvesant
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant was the oldest of seven children born to Lewis Morris Rutherfurd and Margaret Chanler Stuyvesant.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant was the great-grandson of US Senator John Rutherfurd and 2x great-grandson of Lewis Morris, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant's mother was the niece and adopted daughter of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, the 2x great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, and Helena Rutherfurd Stuyvesant.
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In 1869, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant hired Richard Morris Hunt to build the "first true apartment building in New York", located on the present day site of 142 East 18th Street near Gramercy Park.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant was a collector of arms and armor, fine china and paintings.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant had an estate in the country, known as Tranquility Farms, near Hackettstown, New Jersey that was the original Stuyvesant homestead.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant enlarged the home which was located on 7,000 acres and included a park stocked with elk, deer, ponds with beavers, and pheasants.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant was a member of the Union Club of New York, the Century Club, the City Racquet Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Atlantic Yacht Club and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Clubs, The Downtown Association, The Columbia College Alumni Association, New-York Historical Society, and the American Geographical Society.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant was a fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and the National Academy of Design, and a patron and trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Rutherfurd Stuyvesant died suddenly while out for his customary morning walk in the Champs-Elysees in Paris on July 4,1909.