In one of the greatest tragedies in Thompson family history, officials at the Phoenician hotel raised Mabel Thompson Filor’s historically significant Phoenix estate to make way for the Canyon Suites, a bland collection of luxury vacation cottages. A Starwood Hotel website — Starwood bought the Phoenician about 10 years ago — attempts to put the […]
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Clergy Inhabit Mabel Thompson Filor’s Old Stony Point Estate
Mabel Thompson may not be as famous as her well-heeled older brothers William Boyce and Joseph Edward, but she was very wealthy nonetheless. Born in Butte, Montana, in 1886, Mabel married a stockbroker, Walter Filor, eight years her senior. He earned enough to buy Mabel a very impressive, 150-acre estate in Stony Point, New York, […]