As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

In 1893 he accepted an offer from Speyer and Company of New York and went to the United States where he spent the rest of his life. Kahn proved his ability to analyze mathematically and scientifically the problems that were constantly presented. Shortly thereafter the house was sold to the Convent of the Sacred Heart an independent Catholic girls school.

Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21 1867 – March 29 1934) was an investment banker collector philanthropist and patron of the arts.