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Tring Park Mansion (southern facade) Tring Park Mansion or Mansion House, Tring Park, is a large country house in Tring, Hertfordshire. The house, as "Tring Park", was used, and from 1872 owned, by members of the Rothschild family from 1838 to 1945. The mansion and its immediate grounds are now home to the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
Flint House. Nathan Mayer Rothschild had rented Tring Park in Tring, Hertfordshire in the 1830s. It was purchased with 4,000 acres (16 km 2) by Lionel Rothschild in May 1872 as his principal country residence. [16]
Part of the park, together with the nearby Oddy Hill, is the 35.6-hectare (88-acre) biological "Oddy Hill and Tring Park" Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). [3] [4] The park formerly belonged to Tring Park Mansion, built in 1682 by Christopher Wren and altered externally in the nineteenth century. [5]
In 1902 Champneys was sold to Lady Rothschild by the Rev. Arthur Sutton Valpy, a descendant of Richard Valpy who had inherited it in 1871. He replaced the original building by the current house in 1874 which stood in extensive grounds of around 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) which his late wife Emily Anne Sutton had acquired, prior to their marriage ...
Coat of arms granted to Rothschild in 1822 by Emperor Francis I of Austria. The Rothschild family originated from Frankfurt.The family rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who established his banking business in the 1760s. [1]
The Natural History Museum at Tring was once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild, and is located on the grounds of the former Rothschild family home of Tring Park. The building was constructed in 1889 to house his collection of mounted specimens and first opened to the public in 1892.
In 1900, Champneys was sold to Lady Rothschild; [3] [4] the family had owned nearby Tring Park Mansion since 1872. [5] In 1925 Stanley Lief (1890–1962), a pioneer in the field of naturopathy, bought Champneys, converting it into a Nature Cure resort which he ran from the 1930s for about 20 years. [6]
Idora Park: Idora Park: September 13, 1993 : Southeast of the junction of McFarland and Parkview Aves. Youngstown: Park was demolished and has been vacant land since 2001. [9] [10] Wooden carousel was relocated to Brooklyn, NY, in 1984. [11] 21: Jay's Lunch