obvious to many that he and Alva were attracted to one another upon their return from one such voyage in 1889. After his death, Alva took on the new cause of the women's suffrage movement. Death Oliver Belmont died on June 10, 1908, at his Brookholt estate in East Meadow, New York, from appendicitis. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. His mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, is an exact replica of the Chapel of St. Hubert at Château d'Amboise in France and features a set of Renaissance-inspired painted glass windows designed by artist Helen Maitland Armstrong. His second wife, Alva Belmont, was buried alongside him after her death in 1933. References Notes Sources Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt Arthur T Vanderbilt. Morrow, 1989. Attribution External links Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont entry at The Political Graveyard Belcourt Castle website 1858 births 1908 deaths American financiers American socialites American people of German-Jewish descent Belmont family Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) Politicians from New York City Perry family United States Naval Academy alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) People from East Meadow, New York Deaths from appendicitis Gilded Age 19th-century American politicians