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If you’re harboring fantasies of living in a Gilded Age New York, here’s your chance: The James F.D. Lanier House, an opulent Beaux-Arts early 20th-century home, has hit the market for $33 million.…
The Fifth Avenue mansion's top floor has a room with a Faraday Cage, where people met during the Cold War to evade wire taps, installed after Yugoslavia bought the property in 1946.
Next time you’re in one of the city’s former Gilded Age mansions—reborn as a museum, perhaps, or a cultural center, store, or some other public building—be on the lookout for tiny butto…
NYC, Mrs Astor's home - Caroline's son John came up with a solution and built a massive mansion on a plot the family owned at 65th Street. The mansion on the outside would appear to be one house but on the inside the home was really two with Caroline occupying the left side and John and his family occupying the right side. This way Caroline could enjoy the comfort of her son's home practically in the same house and yet be enabled to enjoy the privacy of her own. Guests entered through large…
A piece of history in a modern city
Lynnewood Hall, located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, is a Gilded Age mansion built between 1897 and 1900 for industrialist Peter A.B. Widener. Designed by renowned architect Horace Trumbauer, this 110-room Neoclassical Revival estate is one of the largest surviving Gilded Age mansions in the United States. Widener, a prominent figure in American business and an investor in the Titanic, used Lynnewood Hall to house his extensive art collection. Despite changing ownership and periods of…
There are 82 billionaires with homes in New York City—here’s where to find them
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From Newport to New York City
Marble House in Newport, RI was spectacular...this staircase is amazing
The opulent mansion at 854 Fifth Avenue has a long, storied past—one that includes high-society Manhattanites and a faraday cage.
A very big mansion from the 1920's with a huge lawn and garden. "A cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial Mansion." (30).
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