#elizabeth jones

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Wyndclyffe Mansion

Located at 25 Wynclyffe Court, a private road off Mill Road, in Rhinebeck, New York, Wyndclyffe is in a National Historic Landmark District. Built in 1853 and abandoned since 1950. This place is thought to have inspired the term "Keeping up with the Joneses".

This mansion was purchased by the wealthy socialite Elizabeth Jones in 1853 as a summer house. A cousin to the Astors and aunt to Edith Wharton, Jones occupied a space in the upper echelons of New York high society. In 1853 she had built for herself this gothic mansion in the sleepy hamlet of Rhinecliff, a hundred miles up the Hudson River. The mansion was eluded to in both of Wharton's novels, “A Backward Glance” and “Hudson River Bracketed.”

The 24 bedroom gothic mansion had towers and gables and arched windows. It was so grand that it prompted a ‘building boom’ as all neighbors started upgrading their houses, and the saying “Keeping up with the Joneses” was born.

Elizabeth Jones never married, and after her death, the mansion’s later owners fell foul of the Great Depression, until in 1950, the house was abandoned for good.

Update ~ May, 2023: Town Board members have approved the stabilization plan for the Wyndclyffe mansion in an effort to move forward with the restoration of the 170-year-old deteriorating relic of pre-Civil War extravagance.

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What I’m watching (2023 Edition) || The Kardashians - Season 2 (2022)

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Sitting in Brisbane one day, drowsing over a book, Thomas Archer of Durundur found a gentleman and three ladies at his door.

The former I soon recognised to be Mr Jones, at one time a leading merchant and MC in Sydney, but much reduced by the late hard times. I of course introduced myself to him and was in my turn introduced to Mrs and two Misses Jones, the latter very pretty and highly accomplished young ladies.

In a very short time I found myself on very easy terms with them all, and to my own astonishment found myself buttering toast & doing the amiable, to perfection, a style of business to which I have been rather unaccustomed for the last ten years; next day I had the honor of escorting them to their cottage about ¼ mile from town where I have been every day since, boating, shopping and visiting with the ladies, and in fact acting as their "Chaperon" on every occasion. During this time I have led a very agreeable life, and was within an ace of falling in love with one of them when to my horror I was told that she is engaged to be married next month!

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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I've gotta say, this is the biggest nightmare of my life, but... I look quite good. I can't argue.

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Davy Jones & Calypso / Will & Elizabeth parallels

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neal caffrey’s white collar family in their respective gaslight, girlboss, gatekeep alignments-

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this is the iconic dinosaur horror jurassic park wishes it was

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*Noteblock cover of He's A Pirate plays in the background*

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Celebrity Melons

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bambi .𖥔 ݁ ˖

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"All passed for ever from his possession!" wrote Jones' daughter Elizabeth in her little memoir that portrayed her father as a good – even saintly – man brought undone by the times:

In the terribly sudden & disastrous storm that overtook all financial interests throughout Australia at that time; he suffered a deep reverse of fortune . . . But we were not entirely reduced to penury . . . we were still in comfortable circumstances. And also we were allowed to live at Bolwarra, as "tenants at will," for nearly two years during the winding up of the "Insolvent Estate". And when in the latter part of 1845, we had to leave Bolwarra; and made our course to Brisbane; we were still placed in easy & pleasant circumstances even then: & by degrees also things continued to improve. But the affluence of years gone by, was never to be recovered.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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She had met John Stephen Ferriter, purser on Her Majesty's war sloop Alligator, a couple of years earlier when the ship called at Sydney after carrying out Britain's first armed conflict with the Māori.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

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Wolves and sheep

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Sarah Jane Smith and Jo Jones hugging in a coffin is old woman yuri