tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post6547185030051428529..comments2024-03-28T18:01:17.304-07:00Comments on Daytonian in Manhattan: The J. J. Van Alen House -- No. 15 East 65th St.Tom Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-3648344579212873492015-01-19T02:53:16.657-08:002015-01-19T02:53:16.657-08:00Thanks! I tweaked that detail.Thanks! I tweaked that detail.Tom Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-34806086475845581372015-01-18T13:12:45.613-08:002015-01-18T13:12:45.613-08:00Great article. Only a small point; " He owne...Great article. Only a small point; " He owned a 15th century manor house, Rushton Hall, in England and the couple spent their time there as well as in New York and Newport." is not correct. Rushton Hall was leased from the Clarke-Thornhill family - not owned. Very interesting read.CopperBasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09628033080799454805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-80314640261717404852013-04-26T11:57:44.252-07:002013-04-26T11:57:44.252-07:00Search:
Home > Department History > ...<br />Search: <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Home > Department History > People > James J. Van Alen<br />DEPARTMENT HISTORY<br /><br />Short History<br />Buildings of the Department<br />People<br />Biographies of the Secretaries of State<br />Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission<br />Principals and Chiefs Alphabetical Listing<br />Principals and Chiefs Chronological Listing<br />Travels<br />Travels of the Secretary<br />Travels of the President<br />Visits by Foreign Leaders<br />JAMES J. VAN ALEN (1846-1923)<br /><br />Non-career appointee<br />State of Residence: Rhode Island<br /><br />Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Italy)<br />Appointed: October 20, 1893<br />Declined appointment.<br /><br />Wonder possibly if your grandfather was mistaken!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-30885188936018150932013-03-23T19:41:27.671-07:002013-03-23T19:41:27.671-07:00In one of those strange 'six degrees of separa...In one of those strange 'six degrees of separation' moments, it is worth noting that Australia's highest mountain, Mt Kosiuszko, was named after Thaddeus Kosiusczko in 1840, by a fellow Pole, Edmund Strzelecki, an explorer and geologist who was working in Australia at the time.<br />Jim Lesseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08246641739909183223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-73417338374220445222013-03-21T10:46:56.552-07:002013-03-21T10:46:56.552-07:00They Foundation occassionally holds events in the ...They Foundation occassionally holds events in the house and the interiors apppear to be little changed. A very nice townhouse and a nice survivorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-10562709910140225902013-03-21T07:20:36.486-07:002013-03-21T07:20:36.486-07:00Classy lookin' classical styled house! Happy ...Classy lookin' classical styled house! Happy it has held up so well this long in the ever-changing NYC! Wonder what the inside looks like today and how it has weathered the years...?MjHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01695668504463342682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-5186741903852623982013-03-21T06:04:13.103-07:002013-03-21T06:04:13.103-07:00I remember reading somewhere that Van Alen was wha...I remember reading somewhere that Van Alen was what my granfather would have termed "A first prize horse's ass". His anglophilia apparently bordered on the comical and included peppering his conversation with English phrases and expressions then unused in the United States, all delivered in his version of an English Toff's accent. I believe that he lobbied to be appointed our ambassador to the Court of St. James but made so bad an impression on the gentlemen who interviewed him (including lecturing them on how he insisted on keeping his English mustard in an English mustard pot and his French mustard in a French mustard pot), that his candidacy was quickly dropped. He hardly seems the type to have set a young heiress' (or anyone lese's) heart aflutter. <br /><br />I love the house, though. magnushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09181183756484194127noreply@blogger.com