and Robert were the parents of four children: Beatrice Goelet (1922–2015), who married Hayward Ferry Manice, son of William de Forest Manice, in 1948. Robert Guestier Goelet (1924–2019), a former Lt. in the U.S. Navy Reserve who was elected a director of the Chemical Bank in 1952. Francis Goelet (1926–1998), a noted philanthropist and patron of the arts who died unmarried. John Goelet, who married Henrietta Fanner, daughter of William Rogers Fanner, and later lived in Paris. After several months of ill health, Goelet died on May 2, 1941 of a heart attack, aged 61, in his brownstone on Fifth Avenue at 48th Street. After a funeral service at St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue, he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. In his will, he left the Ritz-Carlton Hotel to Harvard University. His widow was given his personal effects and property along with life use of their home on Narragansett Avenue in Newport and their estate in France. His widow lived almost another 47 years until her death in 1988. Legacy In 1958, in Goelet's honor, his widow and four children donated $500,000 toward the construction of the Metropolitan Opera's new home at Lincoln Center, where the grand staircase bears a plaque with his name. As of 2012, the Goelet's Newport estate at Narragansett Avenue and the corner of Ochre Point Avenue, remained in the Goelet family. References External links Robert Walton Goelet's 'Southside' Estate, Newport, RI 1880 births 1941 deaths Goelet family People from Manhattan American real estate businesspeople Harvard University alumni