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Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
The most famous American Queen Anne residence is the Carson Mansion in Eureka, California. [5] Newsom and Newsom were notable builder-architects of 19th-century California homes and public buildings, and they designed and constructed (1884–1886) this 18-room home for William Carson, one of California's first lumber barons.
The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house, constructed from 1884 to 1886 and located in Old Town, Eureka, California.Regarded as one of the premier examples of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, [2]: 33 the house is "considered the most grand Victorian home in America."
Take a look at the most extravagant, and often impractical, displays of wealth I've seen at historic Gilded Age mansions. The Breakers, a Vanderbilt mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, is famous for ...
Here are all of the historic houses featured in The Gilded Age—including The Breakers, Marble House, Lyndhurst Mansion, and more in New York and Rhode Island.
House Beautiful has rounded up a list of all 18 historic house museums that are featured throughout The Gilded Age's first season—all of which can be visited and toured in person.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Beechwood: a mansion and the former residence of Caroline Astor in Newport, Rhode Island; Belcourt Castle: the summer mansion of Oliver Belmont, American banking heir; Blithewold: an 1896 waterfront mansion and gardens in Bristol, Rhode Island; The Breakers: Newport, one of the most ambitious residences of the Gilded Age and an architectural ...