An eerie hike in fog with thunder up Round Mountain in Tyringham very near the McLennan trail, lead to the true burial site of Robb De Peyster Tytus 1876-1913, Grace Seeley Henop Tytus McLennan 1875-1928 and Mildred Mordaunt Tytus 1904-1933. Buried in a Sarcophagus Egyptian style (true story), stones are 6 feet long by 3 feet wide. The old road to the graves remains today.

In the early 20th century, Egyptologist and politician Robb de Peyster Tytus assembled an estate on a hill overlooking the southern end of Tyringham Valley, Tytus built between 1910 – 1912 a white, Georgian-style mansion which came to be known as the Marble Palace. The mansion’s main façade featured four Doric columns and was spanned by thirteen bay windows. Its interior contained thirty- five rooms, ten baths, and fifteen fireplaces. Though the Marble Palace was destroyed by fire in 1952, the front terrace, foundation, and four Doric columns remain today.

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