page_title: Alice DeLamar
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Alice DeLamar / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Image originally published in Queer Places: Retracing the Steps of LGBTQ people around the World Authored by Elisa Rolle
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 lived at the estate named Stonebrook, located in Weston, that she had built in the 1930s. Her visitors included Dave Brubeck, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Salvador Dalí, Eva Le Gallienne, and George Balanchine. On this estate, she had a pool built that includes a tunnel leading from the basement. It is rumored that this was so she could swim in the nude without fear of being seen or the need to walk outside.
  She also had a house in Palm Beach, Florida along the ocean; a townhouse in Paris that was previously owned by Gerald Murphy; and an apartment at 530 Park Avenue in New York.
  For six decades, DeLamar was Eva Le Gallienne's lover and financial supporter. She backed plays and she is believed to have provided funding for the Civic Repertory Theatre established by Le Gallienne in New York City.
  While seeking treatment for liver cancer, DeLamar hit her head when she fell in the South Norwalk hospital, which led to her death. Her remains were cremated and buried in West Palm Beach. A large portion of her estate went to Harvard, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins Universities, in accordance with her father's will. La Gallienne received $1 million or a quarter of her estate, including the land and house that DeLamar purchased for her.
caption: Royal Palm Memorial Gardens, West Palm Beach, Florida
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