Eugene Keteltas (1802-1876)
Property Owner, of 37 St. Mark's Place, New York City
He inherited a large property in real estate on the east side of New York City from his father and received a large amount of land through his wife, which in all amounted to a very valuable estate. In 1847, he purchased the mansion at 37 St. Mark's Place (see images) on the corner of Second Avenue that became informally referred to as the "Keteltas House," and in the 1850s he updated the sober Federal interior with “rare Italian marble mantelpieces, mahogany doors, and other luxurious furnishings.” He divided his time between New York and "Lansmeer" the summer home he purchased at Newport, R.I., in 1870. He was remembered as, "a benevolent man, constantly engaged in works of charity in the unostentatious way. Retiring in disposition and fond of the scenes of his childhood." He married Malvina, daughter of John Gardner (d.1817), and sister of the Comtesse de Dion. They had ten children. Only their eldest (Mrs. Henrietta Smith) and youngest daughters (Mrs. Edith Wetmore) married. Their remaining children who reached adulthood (two of whom were declared mentally incompetent) all continued to reside together at the old "Keteltas House" - Alice Keteltas was the last to leave in 1912, building herself a sumptuous mansion at 9 East 79th Street next to Isaac Brokaw's chateau.
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Image Courtesy of the Frick Art Reference Library; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60342/60342-h/60342-h.htm