page_title: Alice DeLamar
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Alice DeLamar / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Consulate General of the Republic of Poland at Madison Avenue and 37th Street in Manhattan. See also File:Polish UN Embassy 9E66 jeh.JPG.
context_page_description: Alice DeLamar was the heiress to Joseph Raphael De Lamar. She was a patron of the arts, and helped fund plays by Mercedes de Acosta. DeLamar also donated some of her land in Palm Beach, Florida to the Audubon Society in the 1960s.
context_section_description: DeLamar was born April 23, 1895, in New York City to Joseph Raphael De Lamar and Nellie Sands. She was their only child. The DeLamars had a mansion in New York City and an estate on Glen Cove on Long Island called Pennbrook or Pembroke. After she was born the family moved to Paris, where she lived until she and her father moved back to New York City in 1900. Late in the 1900s, DeLamar was put into the Spence School by her godfather, William Nelson Cromwell. Her parents divorced in 1910, and her father gained custody of her. She had a half-sister, Consuelo Hatmaker , from her mother and her second husband, James Hatmaker.
  After she graduated from the Spence School, DeLamar and Evangeline Johnson, one of her schoolmates, volunteered for the Red Cross Motor Corps in Europe during World War I. Joseph Raphael De Lamar, Alice DeLamar's father, died December 1, 1918, making her the inheritor of $10 million (equivalent to $166,570,796 in 2018) and was subsequently called the richest bachelor girl in the United States. Preferring a simpler life, she eschewed the family mansion for a Park Avenue apartment following her father's death.
caption: Joseph Raphael De Lamar House at Madison Avenue and 37th Street in Manhattan, now the Polish Consulate
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