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Woodland Rose Cotton Duck - Blue £20.00/m Rose Amelia Selfridge (née Buckingham; 5 July 1860 – 12 May 1918) was the wife of the department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. She was a member of the wealthy Buckingham family of Chicago and had inherited a large amount of property and money from her ancestors. She was well educated and had travelled extensively when she met Harry Selfridge in the late 1880s. After they were married, Rose lived for some time with Harry in Chicago and enjoyed the company of her family. Later they moved to London when Harry built his new department store on Oxford Street. Her story has recently been portrayed in the television series Mr Selfridge, where she is shown as the patient wife (played by Frances O'Connor) of the famous businessman. Benjamin Hale Buckingham, father of Rose Selfridge. Rosalie (Rose) Amelia Buckingham was born in 1860 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was Benjamin Hale Buckingham, and her mother was Martha Euretta Potwin.
[1] Her grandfather was Alvah Buckingham, who had founded the firm Buckingham and Sturges. This firm built the first grain elevator in Chicago and signed a contract with the Illinois Central Railway to handle all of their grain warehousing for ten years.[2] Rose's father Benjamin was part of this family business. Unfortunately, he died in 1864 when Rose was only four years old. Despite her father's death, Rose's family continued to live well. The 1870 census shows that Rose, her mother Martha and her sister Anna each had inherited considerable wealth consisting of both property and money. Between the ages of 13 to 19, Rose acquired an education by traveling through Europe with her mother, studying languages and music.[4] She was said to be a very gifted harpist and was described by a Chicago socialite in the following terms. Between the ages of 24 and 28, Rose traveled through Europe, Russia and the Middle East with several members of the Buckingham family.[4] She appears to have been sensitive about her age, as in some of her travel documents she subtracted up to six years from her true birth date.
[8] In 1883, Rose had purchased land on Harper Avenue between 57th Street and 59th Street in Hyde Park, Chicago and hired architect Solon S. Beman to create a row of elegant homes, which came to be known as the Rosalie Villas.
cream tab top curtains asdaBeman supervised the project and designed most but not all of the homes.
ikea sailcloth curtainsW. W. Boyington designed a brick home for brick manufacturer Charles Bonner, which Bonner built in 1889 at 5752 S. Harper Ave.[9] Using Beman's plans, Rose built a total of 42 villas and artists' cottages within a landscaped environment.
kriskadecor curtains[8] Most of them survive fairly intact, but the Rosalie Inn and Cafe on the southwest corner of 57th and Harper was demolished;
the restaurant was once known as the Café Red Roses. The inn marked the entrance to Rosalie Court. Powell's Bookstore now stands on that lot. Harrose Hall, Lake Geneva, home of Harry and Rose Selfridge. After their marriage, the couple lived for some time with Rose's mother on Rush Street, Chicago. They later moved to their own house on Lake Shore Drive. The Selfridges also built an imposing mansion called Harrose Hall in mock Tudor style on Lake Geneva, complete with large greenhouses and extensive rose gardens.[10] Over the next decade the couple had five children – Chandler born in 1891, who died shortly thereafter, Rosalie born in 1893, Violette in 1897, Gordon in 1900 and Beatrice in 1901.[11] Throughout their married life Harry's mother, Lois, lived with the family. Rose was particularly fond of growing orchids and was said to be an expert in this field. The Chicago Tribune in 1903 said that she had 2000 different varieties and lauded her accomplishment as an orchidist.
[12] The couple held large parties and were frequently mentioned in the social pages of the Chicago newspapers. In 1904, Harry opened his own department store called Harry G. Selfridge and Co. in Chicago. However, after only two months he sold the store at a profit to Carson, Pirie and Co.[13] He then decided to retire and for the next two years pottered around his properties, mainly his mansion, Harrose Hall on Lake Geneva. He also bought a steam yacht, which he rarely used, and played golf.[14] However, he soon became bored and began to plan the opening of a department store in London. Rose was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Alliance française, the Fortnightly Club and the Colonial Dames. Because of her interest in French culture, the French government conferred her into the Order of the Golden Palms. Rose Selfridge and her family. Top row: Beatrice, Rose (in centre) and Violette. Bottom Row: Gordon and Rosalie. Harry went to London in 1906 without his family to make the preliminary arrangements for the new store.
Rose and the four children followed later. They lived a very palatial lifestyle. The 1911 English census shows that the family lived in a very large house in Arlington Street London with eleven servants. There was a cook, a kitchen maid, four housemaids, a scullery maid and three footmen.[16] Harry appeared to want to lead the life of a traditional English gentleman. Rose attended numerous social functions, many with the English aristocracy, while she lived in London either accompanied by Harry or alone. The Times in 1910 reported that “Viscount Bridport, the Duchess of Devonshire, Earl Howe, Lord Ornathwaite, Lady Russell and Mrs. Gordon Selfridge were among the many present yesterday at the musical and dramatic matinee given at the Criterion Theatre.[17] The couple together also saw Anna Pavlova dance with her partner Michael Mordkin at a special private performance. In 1911, the family was involved in a serious car accident near Ambleside in the Lake District. An account was given in a newspaper as follows:
Rose did not greatly enjoy her life in London. She missed her home and family in Chicago and returned there to see her sister Anna three or four times a year. Her daughters, Rosalie, Violette, and Beatrice, attended Miss Douglas' School in Queen's Gate and learned to dance and speak French. Their son Gordon was sent away to prep school.[19] Later, young Rosalie went to Finch College in New York City. Rose's Convalescent Hospital at Highcliffe Castle. In 1916 during World War I, Harry rented Highcliffe Castle as his country estate. He immediately made major improvements to the house. Rose and her two eldest daughters joined the Red Cross and for some time worked at nearby Christchurch Hospital.[20] After the U.S. joined the war, Rose opened a convalescent hospital for American soldiers. Hayden Church, a reporter from the U.S., visited her at Highcliffe in 1918 and made a detailed report in his newspaper. It appears that Rose was very enthusiastic about her hospital, as the report states that "the Christmas gift of this American business man (Harry) to his wife was a perfectly equipped convalescent camp."