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It’s now been abandoned for over 70 years, and photography-inclined trespassers have documented entire sections of the mansion that have crumbled. The home was purchased in 2017 with hopes of ...
awscyh/Flickr Castles, chateaux, and mansions - these are displays of wealth and power usually reserved for kings and countesses, or at least old-timey movie stars. It's hard to imagine these ...
Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1899.
Some famous mansions still sit empty today or are being used for vastly different purposes.
The house is currently abandoned. [11] Mentmore Towers is a Grade I listed building, with its park and gardens listed Grade II*. [12] Architecture.
The mansion was abandoned sometime around 1950. Originally situated on 80 acres including waterfront access to the Hudson River, the property was eventually reduced to 2.5 acres. [7] Portions of the mansion have collapsed after over 70 years of abandonment. In 2003 the mansion was sold and the new owner erected a security fence around the property.
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 ...
From derelict Gilded Age mansions in America to decrepit ruins of dictator largesse around the world, these 10 abandoned mansions are frightfully fascinating.