The Cuttings
The glamour began for Old Fort in the 1920s when American James Cox Brady won the property in a card game. Brady sadly died shortly thereafter but his widow remarried a worldly character with the unusual name of Suydam Cutting and the house began a new and vibrant phase.
The Cuttings were famous world travelers. Mrs. Cuttings was the first Western woman in Tibet and she returned with a pair of Lhasa Apsos that the Dali Llama. The Cuttings were famous for entertaining at the Old Fort under giant Tibetan tents with servants dressed in Indian Madras uniforms.
Mr. Cutting
Mrs. Cutting
A party on the beach
Photo published in Life Magazine - 1946