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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 ...
A New York City mansion built in the twilight of the Gilded Age is on sale for $33 million. This is the first time the 9-bed property, which has its own spa, has hit the market in 40 years.
If you're lucky, one of the last remaining Stanford White-designed mansions in Manhattan. 973 Fifth Avenue has just hit the market for $49.9 million—a relative bargain, considering its previous ...
Lynnewood Hall is the second largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the United States and once housed the most significant and diverse collection of art in American history, additionally recognized as one of the most important collections of Western European Art in world history.
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 ...
I've toured eight Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Hudson Valley, New York. The mansions feature incredible displays of wealth such as walls covered in gold and silver.
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.
The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the Gilded Age mansions built as summer retreats around the turn of the 20th century by the extremely wealthy, including the Vanderbilt and Astor families.