John Innes Kane

John Innes Kane (July 29, 1850 – February 1, 1913) His siblings included Walter Langdon, DeLancey Astor Kane, Woodbury Kane, S. Nicholson Kane, Louisa Langdon Kane, Emily Astor Kane (who married Augustus Jay and was the mother of Peter Augustus Jay), and Sybil Kent Kane. The family lived at "Beach Cliffe", designed by Detlef Lienau, which was one of the earliest Newport cottages "to attain a sort of Beaux-Arts purity." Through her mother, she was a first cousin of Rawlins Lowndes Cottenet. At their wedding, Annie wore an ivory and gold satin gown with pearls by Charles Frederick Worth of the Parisian based House of Worth. The couple did not have any children.

Kane died of pneumonia on February 2, 1913, at his residence in New York City. He was buried in a memorial tomb, also designed by McKim, Mead & White, at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. His widow died in July 1926, and left $4,000,00 to New York City charities, including $1,000,000 to the Home for Incurables and $1,000,000 to Columbia University (of which her father had been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees ). For many years after her death, her estate continued contributing to various charitable causes in New York.

Residences After years of renting houses in Lenox, Massachusetts, There, Kane had a Tudor Revival Cottage built between 1903 and 1904, designed by local architect Fred L. Savage, that was known both as Breakwater and Atlantique (although today it is known as the John Innes Kane Cottage). (The John Innes Kane Cottage is one of a small number of estate houses to escape Bar Harbor's devastating 1947 fire.)

Kane hired the prominent New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White to design his New York City residence. His home, located at 1 West 49th Street (or 610 Fifth Avenue), "attracted immediate attention, when completed in 1909, because of its attractive simplicity. It was built in the style of the Italian Renaissance, and its furnishings were brought from all parts of Europe."