Helen Huntington Hull

Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor Hull (April 9, 1893 – December 11, 1976) was an American socialite, arts patron, and political hostess. Early life Helen Dinsmore Huntington was born on April 9, 1893, to Helen Gray Dinsmore (1868–1942) and Robert Palmer Huntington (1869–1949), an independently wealthy architect and tennis champion. She had a sister, Alice (1898–1966), who married the painter Jan Juta, great-nephew of Karl Marx, and a brother, Robert Jr (1900–1990), who married Edith Bishop Taylor, great-granddaughter of millionaire Moses Taylor, one of the richest men of his time. She grew up in Rhinebeck, New York, at both her paternal mansion, Hopeland House, a 35-room Tudor Revival mansion designed by her father, and her maternal mansion, Staatsburg on Hudson.