The house has had a number private owners throughout its history, the most notable being Count Oskar Bopp von Oberstadt, an Austrian count for whom the house is named.

During the winter of 1935-36, Harriman enlisted the services of an Austrian count, Felix Schaffgotsch, to travel across the western U.S. to locate an ideal site for a winter resort.

In 1932, he hired Felix Schaffgotsch, an Austrian count, and sent him off on a journey to find a place for the perfect American ski resort.

When she was seventeen, the Colonel introduced her to an Austrian count named Ludovic.

She spent most of her life traveling and having ambiguous relationships with an Austrian count here, an English cavalry officer there.

An unemployed film actor through most of their short marriage, Salm-Hoogstraten was characterized by the New York Times as "a gold-digging Austrian count" and TIME magazine called him "penniless."

When he returned home he was given employment as a personal companion to an Austrian count, who took him to Vienna and Constantinople.

An Austrian count, who had a loud and silly laugh, said: "Who has saddled you with that yarn?

The "Exotic Prince" had, however, made a conquest of the charming daughter of a wealthy Austrian count, and had cut out an excellent young officer, who was wooing her.

To one of them, an Austrian count, he acknowledged stealing $1 million.