Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying 18-year-old socialite Madeleine Talmage Force. To make the news even more ...

This Valentine’s Day, The St. Regis Venice, the luxurious five-star hotel located on the Grand Canal, invites guests to indulge in an intimate escapade with its “Romance in Venice” offering. Set in ...

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to ... who owned New York’s Waldorf Astoria and St. Regis as well as rent-collecting buildings in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods ...

in which he portrayed John Jacob Astor IV. There he was, participating in the sequences involving the sinking of that vessel, when he heard a single word from James Cameron: "Never." Turning ...

The text depicts what went wrong for Shackleton; lessons learned in 2019; and the flexibility, creativity and perseverance of the crews, as well as the triumph of new technologies in 2022.

This article is written by William Roka, a historian with the South Street Seaport Museum. Titanic and New York City, ...

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her ... Before his 1912 death, Astor, who owned New York’s Waldorf Astoria and St. Regis as well as rent-collecting buildings in some ...

The building was constructed in 1907 by John Jacob Astor IV, who owned the Waldorf-Astoria in New York at the time and later died on the Titanic. It is on a quiet side street with little traffic. The ...

John Jacob Bausch was born in Gross Suessen, Germany in 1830. He was 18 when he moved to Berne, Switzerland, where he found work in an optical shop designing camera lenses. The following year, in 1849 ...

The actor played John Jacob Astor IV in the film and told TV Insider that he always knew the movie would be a hit, even when others were doubtful. “I’m the only one who did,” he admitted.