Editing Walter Chrysler (section)

==Later years==
[[File:W.C. mausoleum.jpg|thumb|The mausoleum of Walter Chrysler at [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]]]]

In 1923, Chrysler purchased from [[Henri Willis Bendel]] a {{convert|12|acre|ha|0|adj=on|spell=in}} waterfront estate at [[Kings Point, New York|Kings Point]] on [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]],<ref>[https://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.812169&lon=-73.7626147&z=17&l=0&m=b&v=8 Google Earth image of the Chrysler Estate]</ref> and renamed it Forker House. In December 1941, the property was sold to the U.S. government's War Shipping Department and became known as Wiley Hall as part of the [[United States Merchant Marine Academy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.melvillehall.com/history.htm|title=Melville History|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004405/http://www.melvillehall.com/history.htm|archive-date=2013-12-03|publisher=US Merchant Marine Academy}}</ref>

Chrysler also built a country estate in [[Warrenton, Virginia]], in what is referred to as the [[Virginia]] horse country and home to the Warrenton Hunt. In 1934, he purchased and undertook a major restoration of the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Company resort and spa in Warrenton. Sold in 1953, the property was developed as a country club.

Chrysler turned 61 in the spring of 1936 and stepped down from an active role in the day-to-day business of the company. Two years later, his wife died at the age of 58 and Chrysler, devastated by the loss of his childhood sweetheart, suffered a [[stroke]]. His previously robust health never recovered from this, and he died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] in August 1940 at Forker House in Kings Point, New York. He was buried at [[Sleepy Hollow Cemetery]] in [[Sleepy Hollow, New York|Sleepy Hollow]], New York.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-P-Chrysler|title=Walter P. Chrysler: American industrialist|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|first=Lee|last=Iacocca|date=8 June 2023 }}</ref>