New York Yacht Club x Steam Yacht Alberta Tiffany & Co. Engraved Stationery w/ 2 Placecard Holders & Postcard
$450
Engraved invitation card Sz: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Mr Bourne requests the pleasure of company on board the steam yacht Alberta
Frederick Bourne was a businessman who was president of Singer Sewing Machines and built a mansion on 5th Avenue.
Commodore Frederick Gilbert Bourne (December 20, 1851 – March 9, 1919) was an American businessman. He was the fifth president of the Singer Manufacturing Company, from 1889 to 1905. He made the business "perhaps the first modern multinational industrial enterprise of any nationality".
Residences
Bourne owned several homes and estates. He maintained an apartment at The Dakota in New York City, which occupied the entire first floor; he owned a 2,000-acre (4 km2) country estate named Indian Neck Hall in Oakdale on Long Island next to Idle Hour, the estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt; he owned a 375-acre farm near Montauk, New York, which he used as an undeveloped hunting preserve; an apartment on Jekyll Island, Georgia; and the 7-acre Dark Island in the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River.
In 1902, Bourne hired architect Ernest Flagg to build him a small hunting lodge on the Dark Island property. The building was based on a book written by Sir Walter Scott in 1826 called Woodstock. This book describes an elegant castle with secret passageways, tunnels, and a dungeon. Today, the castle is known as Singer Castle.
A sailing enthusiast, Bourne served as a Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. He was also a member of the famous Jekyll Island Club (aka The Millionaires Club) on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Bourne owned many boats that he frequently used in New York City and at his summer home in the Thousand Islands.
FGB was an avid boater and owned boats of all types and sizes, from small speedboats to large steam yachts. Among his better known yachts were the Delaware, the Colonia, the Alberta, and the Artemis. He was a member of several yacht clubs in the area, including the New York Yacht Club and the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club. In 1903 he was named Commodore of the NYYC, a position he would hold until 1905. His steam yacht Delaware was the flagship of the yacht Club during most of his term as its commodore. This yacht was 350 feet long and had a crew of over 100 men.