Box 102
Container
Contains 26 Results:
Property. Purchase. Cancelled notes, 1937-1941
File — Box: 102, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...
Dates:
1937-1941
Property. Sale and transfer. Correspondence. Hess, Hans Ober. Including third party, 1973-1976
File — Box: 102, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...
Dates:
1973-1976
Property. Sale and transfer. Correspondence. Hess, Hans Ober. Including third party, 1977-1979
File — Box: 102, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...
Dates:
1977-1979
Property. Sale and transfer. Correspondence. Hess, Hans Ober. Including third party, 1980-1983
File — Box: 102, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...
Dates:
1980-1983
Property. Sale and transfer. Agreement re: sale of land for national park, 1974
File — Box: 102, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...
Dates:
1974
Property. Sale and transfer. Agreement, dated 4 December 1979, re: gift of castle and garden. Photocopy, undated
File — Box: 102, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...
Dates:
undated