They appeared again in the 1960s, after her fourth husband, Herbert May, convinced her to reopen the estate. ambassador to Russia Joseph Davies, kept her away from Palm Beach. In fact, at the time Mar-a-Lago was built, she already had another Palm Beach house, Hogarcito, but wanted someplace to hold parties.īrief accounts of those parties appeared in the society pages of the New York Times - and occasionally the Battle Creek newspapers - from the 1920s until the 1940s, when World War II and Post's life with her third husband, Washington lawyer and U.S. Post often used the home for entertaining. Post, had the 115-room estate built in Palm Beach between 1924 and 1927 at a cost of $8 million. Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of company founder C.W. Mar-a-Lago now makes headlines because of its owner, President Donald Trump, but it wouldn't exist if not for the Post Consumer Brands cereal plant that sits between Michigan Avenue and Cliff Street on the east side of Battle Creek. The palatial estate called the "winter White House" is also the house that cereal built.
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