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HENRY MORGAN TILFORD AND THE POOR HOUSE
Tilford, one of the most influential men running the affairs of the Standard Oil Company, was President of several company branches before retiring in 1911 to his country house in Tuxedo Park. He purchased the house from Henry W. Poor. The Poor House, as it is still known, is a massive 'Jacobethan' estate and was described in Tilford's New York Times obituary of 4 December 1919 as 'one of the finest country residences in America'.
The name of the house was quickly proven all too apt as Poor's fortune vanished in the Panic of 1907 and the contents of the house were dispersed. However, the house and its vast, overgrown gardens, in all their glory, or gloom, still tower above Tuxedo Park to this day.
Tilford, one of the most influential men running the affairs of the Standard Oil Company, was President of several company branches before retiring in 1911 to his country house in Tuxedo Park. He purchased the house from Henry W. Poor. The Poor House, as it is still known, is a massive 'Jacobethan' estate and was described in Tilford's New York Times obituary of 4 December 1919 as 'one of the finest country residences in America'.
The name of the house was quickly proven all too apt as Poor's fortune vanished in the Panic of 1907 and the contents of the house were dispersed. However, the house and its vast, overgrown gardens, in all their glory, or gloom, still tower above Tuxedo Park to this day.