Oelrichs was also a member of the Democratic Party and active in New York City politics , even declining to run for Mayor of New York City , before moving to San Francisco , California . The Oelrichses played a role in the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake as part of the Committee of Fifty . In the 1890s , the Oelrich 's purchased '' Rose Cliff '' on Bellevue Avenue in Newport , Rhode Island from the estate of George Bancroft and his wife commissioned architect Stanford White to build them a new residence . The resulting Rosecliff was modeled after the Grand Trianon at Versailles , and was completed in 1902 with a final cost of $ 2.5 million
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