page_title: Robert Goelet
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Goelet / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00541 Title: Robert Goelet House Photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold (American, 1844-1927) Architect: McKim, Mead &amp; White (1878-) Photograph date: ca. 1883-ca.1895 Building Date: 1882-1883 Location: North and Central America: United States; Rhode Island, Newport Materials: albumen print Image: 6 x 8 1/8 in.; 15.24 x 20.6375 cm Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5snm There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source. We had some help with the geocoding from http://developer.yahoo.com/
context_page_description: Robert Goelet was an American heir, businessman and yachtsman from New York City during the Gilded Age.
context_section_description: He graduated from Columbia College in 1860 and was subsequently admitted to the bar. Goelet practiced law in the C.J & E. DeWitt (later DeWitt, Lockman and Kip) law firm that also counted his cousin George Goelet Kip and George Gosman DeWitt among its partners, before retiring in 1879 to manage the real estate of his father and his unmarried uncle. After their deaths, he inherited half their fortune.  He also served on the Board of Directors of the Union Trust Company, the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, the Guaranty Trust Company, the Bank of New Amsterdam, the Chemical National Bank, which his father and uncle were instrumental in founding.  In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as:
  "He was clear-headed and keen-witted, and his judgment in financial and real estate matters invariably commanded the respect of other business men.  A loyal New Yorker, Robert Goelet took particular pride in promoting the growth and development of the city with which his family had long so long identified. He was a man of progressive ideas, and throughout his business career pursued a policy of improving his properties in a manner which would beautify the city."
caption: Goelet's residence in Newport
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