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Tuxedo Park School
Tuxedo Park School is an independent day school located in Tuxedo Park, New York, United States and serving the surrounding counties in both New York and New Jersey. The school enrolls students in Pre-K up to the 9th grade (now known as the 'Freshman' year). History Founded in 1900 for the purpose of educating children living in Tuxedo Park (having been founded in 1886 by Pierre Lorillard), the institution grew from a staff of two with 38 pupils from the outset to a current 125 students, sporting an average student-to-teacher ratio of 5:1. Under the leadership of Anthony Barber in the early 1940s, the school received a New York State Charter and became an official not-for-profit institution. Since the late 1950s the school has occupied a brick mansion house styled in the fashion of an English manor, formerly owned by John and Natalie Blair. The building is therefore referred to as 'Blairhame' in their memory. Academics Small by design, the school maintains a low student-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuxedo Park, New York
Tuxedo Park is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Orange County, New York, United States. Its population was 623 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area as well as the larger New York metropolitan area. Its name is derived from an indigenous Lenape word of the Munsee language, ' or ', which is said to mean 'crooked water' or 'crooked river'. Tuxedo Park is a Gated community, gated village in the southern part of the town of Tuxedo, New York, Tuxedo, near New York State Route 17, New York Route 17 and the New York State Thruway. The evening dress for men now popularly known in the North America as a ''tuxedo'' takes its name from Tuxedo Park. It was brought there by James Brown Potter, who was introduced to the garment by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). History The park is in the Ramapo Mountains. In the colonial era, it acquired a reputation for undeveloped iron deposits. In consequence, a compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and American conventions for attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically by its principal element for men, the dinner suit or dinner jacket. In American English, the equivalent term tuxedo (or tux) is common. The dinner suit is a black, midnight blue or white two- or three-piece suit, distinguished by satin or grosgrain jacket lapels and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers. It is worn with a white dress shirt with standing or turndown collar and link cuffs, a black bow tie, typically an evening waistcoat or a cummerbund, and black patent leather dress shoes or court pumps. Accessories may include a semi-formal homburg, bowler, or boater hat. For women, an evening gown or other fashionable evening attire may be worn. The first dinner jacket is traditionally traced to 1865 on the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Lorillard IV
Pierre J. Lorillard IV (October 13, 1833 – July 7, 1901) was an American tobacco manufacturer and Thoroughbred race horse owner. Early life Born in Westchester, New York, he was the son of Pierre Lorillard III (1796–1867) and Catherine Griswold. In 1760, his great-grandfather, and namesake, founded P. Lorillard and Company in New York City to process tobacco, cigars, and snuff. Today, Lorillard Tobacco Company is the oldest tobacco company in the U.S. Life In the early 1880s, Lorillard helped make Newport, Rhode Island a yachting center with his schooner ''Vesta'' and a steam yacht ''Radha.'' He owned a summer estate in Newport called "The Breakers (1878), The Breakers", which he sold to Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1882 in order to use his newly developed estate, the Tuxedo Club, at what became known as Tuxedo Park, New York, Tuxedo Park in Orange County, New York. Lorillard had inherited 13,000 acres (53 km2) around Tuxedo Lake, which he developed in conjunction with W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuxedo, New York
Tuxedo is a town located in Orange County, New York, United States, along the Ramapo River. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 3,624. The town is in the southeastern part of the county in the Ramapo Mountains. New York State Route 17 and the New York State Thruway ( Interstate 87) pass through the town. The name is derived from a Lenape word ''tucseto'', which has several known meanings. History The historic occupants of what is now the town of Tuxedo were the Lenni-Lenape, a branch of the large Algonquian language family of Native Americans, whose different branches lived along the East Coast from Canada through the Upper South. The Lenape named the largest lake in the area ''Tucseto,'' meaning either "place of the bear" or "clear flowing water." European-American colonists later adopted that name for the town they developed. Some Lenape stayed in villages in the Ramapo Mountains, having migrated west from Connecticut. They gradually intermarried with othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
