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Patricia Murphy (restaurateur) (Ellen Murphy) was born on 5 October, 1905 in Placentia, Newfoundland, is a Founder. Discover Patricia Murphy (restaurateur)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As Ellen Murphy
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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 5 October, 1905
Birthday 5 October
Birthplace Placentia, Newfoundland
Date of death November 23, 1979 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Died Place Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Nationality United States

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1979

Murphy died in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on November 23, 1979 after a long illness. She is buried under her married name in Arlington National Cemetery near her second husband, Capt. Kiernan.

1977

In Florida, Murphy apparently transferred her shares in the Deerfield Beach, Florida, restaurant to a longtime manager, John E. Rogers. In 1977, a newspaper restaurant review said she no longer had an interest in any Florida restaurants, and that Rogers was the owner of the Deerfield Beach establishment, which later changed its name to the Cascades restaurant and for a time was known as Trees and You.

1976

A typhoid outbreak that sickened about a dozen people from three states and attracted national media attention was traced to the Candlelight on 49th Street. In January 1976 the New York City health department closed the 49th Street restaurant, which was subsequently sold.

1974

The Candlelight in Greenwich Village went out of business in 1974 and was successfully sued by its landlord, New York University, for improperly assigning its lease to another company and failing to repay money advanced for renovations. Two years later, the Candlelight on Madison Avenue filed for bankruptcy.

1970

Murphy opened a second Florida restaurant in Deerfield Beach, Fla. around 1970. As in Fort Lauderdale, the Deerfield Beach Candlelight included gardens. An artificial brook flowed through the dining room, and the bar's tall plexiglass windows looked out onto a moat.

In 1970, Murphy opened her last New York restaurant at One Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village.

1968

In 1968 New York State began construction on a six-lane arterial highway near the largest of Murphy's restaurants, the Candlelight in Westchester County, and a contractor announced that 27 buildings would be torn down. The Candlelight and the owners of the land it occupied received notice in 1969 of the state's plans for appropriation. In 1971, the Westchester Candlelight closed. In 1972 the restaurant was razed to make way for the highway. The property is now a strip mall, whose larger tenants are CVS and Outback Steakhouse.

1967

In 1967 a classified advertisement in the Wall Street Journal offered Kinsale for sale, describing it as "Patricia Murphy's fabulous home," and adding, "price reduced for immediate sale." Murphy subsequently rented a waterfront home in the Harbor Beach section of Fort Lauderdale. Though smaller than Kinsale, it was featured in a design magazine.

1963

In 1963, Murphy re-entered Manhattan, acquiring two former White Turkey Inn restaurants at 13 East 49th Street and 260 Madison Avenue. The 49th Street location, near Radio City Music Hall, became a destination for tour buses.

1962

Murphy was awarded a 50-year-lease in exchange for promises of a million dollars in improvements. The cost of the lease over the 50-year-period was $7,500,000. In 1962, Mayor Edmund Berry pressed keys to Bahia Mar into Murphy's white-gloved hand, calling them the "keys to a gold mine."

1961

Murphy recounted what she called her "female Horatio Alger" story in her 1961 autobiography, Glow of Candlelight, which set a New York City record for sales of autographed books at Macy's in Herald Square.

In 1961, the year of the publication of her autobiography, Murphy maintained two residences. In New York, she lived in a penthouse overlooking the lake in Central Park while in Florida she continued to live in the Stuart estate acquired during her second marriage. She oversaw her restaurants in the two states by flying between them in her own Cessna 310 airplane, which, according to her autobiography, she piloted herself, although she also said she hired a pilot.

1959

In 1959 Murphy leased a fifth restaurant from the City of Fort Lauderdale, on the site of the municipally-owned Bahia Mar marina, spending $800,000 to renovate and landscape it. The menu was identical to that at her Westchester Candlelight, featuring standard American dishes at moderate prices. In the early 1960s, the city began accepting offers for the sale or lease of the public marina, hoping to develop it with a hotel, shopping center and other real estate investments.

1957

In 1957, Murphy acquired a stake in a London supper club, La Maison de France, co-owned and operated by Helene Cordet, a French-born star of British television. Cordet wrote that her club, which attracted celebrities including Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth, could not have opened without Murphy's backing.

Murphy's second marriage ended with Kiernan's death from heart disease in 1957. Murphy had no children.

1955

In 1955 Murphy was profiled in a magazine for investors published by Merrill Lynch. She told the interviewer, "I have made a few million," and reported profit margins of 15% to 17%.

1950

Following the postwar exodus from the city to the suburbs, Murphy in 1950 leased a former golf clubhouse in Manhasset, N.Y., on the north shore of Long Island. She made extensive renovations to the interior, with lighting by Richard Kelly, who later designed the illumination of the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan. The restaurant was instantly successful, but by 1954 Murphy had sold it, along with her two city restaurants. The buyers of her Manhasset eatery purchased the rights to her name and for 25 more years continued to operate it as Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Restaurant. The Brooklyn restaurant was called simply the Candlelight under its new ownership.

1949

In her autobiography, Murphy mentioned only one sibling, her youngest sister Sheila. A brother, James, also became a restaurateur. In 1949, he had agreed to manage Patricia's Manhasset, N.Y., restaurant but changed his mind after a quarrel. Instead, in 1950 he joined with two other sisters, Lauraine and Maude, and brother Vincent, to open a restaurant a few miles from the Candlelight, in Great Neck, N.Y. Lauraine Murphy's, as it was known, opened a second location in Manhasset in 1954. By then the Manhasset Candlelight was under new ownership, though still named Patricia Murphy's.

1946

After buying the East 60th Street building from her landlords, as well as an adjacent building, she added a bar and quadrupled seating. In 1946, Clementine Paddleford, a food writer for the New York Herald Tribune, wrote that "pretty girls" served popovers "unendingly," dispensing one thousand daily at the Manhattan Candlelight. Paddleford described the restaurant's salad bar as a special feature and said dinners were "simple, plain-American – good!" Beef, lamb, and calf's liver were available "plain roasted as you do at home" or "plain broiled" with "no lathering of strange sauces," Paddleford said, adding that by this time Murphy was serving a half million diners annually at her two locations.

1938

In 1938 Murphy rented space for a second Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Restaurant at 33 East 60th Street. At that time, she wrote, she was losing interest in operating the Brooklyn restaurant and needed the challenge of Manhattan to restore her enthusiasm. In Manhattan she began by taking over a former tea room with a clientele composed largely of working women, whom she described as a significant new category of restaurant-goers.

Murphy married a stock broker, E. Schuyler Robinson, in 1938. According to Murphy's autobiography, the marriage was unhappy and ended quickly. In 1948 she married Captain James E. Kiernan, a retired naval architect. The couple purchased a waterfront home near Stuart, Fla. Occupying 28 acres and including a private island, the estate, called Kinsale, was described by a local newspaper as "palatial."

1933

After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the Candlelight in Brooklyn added a cocktail lounge. Expanding from the building's basement into its upper floors, the restaurant eventually had five dining rooms and a summer garden, serving 500 customers daily.

1929

In late 1929 she noticed the closing of a restaurant near her Brooklyn Heights boarding house and risked her last funds to take it over. Because her makeshift décor included candles on the tables, she called it the Candlelight.

1928

In 1928 Murphy sailed for New York, planning to continue her music studies while staying with a well-off great-uncle on Staten Island. Lured by Manhattan, she soon struck off on her own, playing piano for a while at a cafeteria near Columbia University, where she'd befriended students. Unfamiliar with American popular songs, she failed to please her audience but earned a few dollars dishing out food. She was fired from a subsequent job as a restaurant cashier because of her confusion over U.S. coins. With the Great Depression under way and jobs hard to find, she began coloring picture postcards for subsistence wages.

1905

Patricia Murphy (1905–1979) was a restaurateur who operated nine Patricia Murphy Candlelight restaurants in New York and Florida over the course of half a century. Shortly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, she invested her last $60 in a small Brooklyn restaurant. Soon she was one of the most successful restaurant owners in the New York area, serving a million meals a year in 1956. Her signature item was the popover, a hot bread dispensed from baskets by costumed servers known as popover girls.

Murphy, who misrepresented her age in her autobiography and elsewhere, was born Ellen Murphy in 1905 in Placentia, Newfoundland. She was the first of eight children born to Frederick Francis Murphy and Mary Griffiths Murphy. Her father was the town's leading merchant, she wrote. His general store, Murphy & Sons, outfitted the local fishermen with, she said, "everything from a needle to an anchor." She was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls, St. Michael's Academy in St. George's, Newfoundland.