Glided age

by Esther Crain Format: Hardcover The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City’s transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the [...]

The fictional tycoons in Julian Fellowes’s ‘The Gilded Age’ have descended upon Newport. Here’s how the real life town became high society by the sea.

Model: Carla bruni

Various Spaces of The Russell House for HBO's The Gilded Age

New York has always been home to young men like James Hazen Hyde. Handsome, cultured, and—as the heir to the Equitable Life Assurance Society—incredibly rich, Hyde was one of the brash young men Gi…

Celebrating cinematography one shot at a time.

HBO filmed scenes in Albany last week for season 2 of The Gilded Age and most of the production was near Washington Park! See pics here

Louisa Jacobson and Harry Richardson in The Gilded Age (2022)

One thing about those self-appointed doyennes of New York’s social scene in the late 19th century: they sure knew how to throw a party. But no party host was as outrageous as Mamie Fish, the …

The Astor mansion at 65th Street and Fifth Avenue, circa 1900. Designed by society's famed architect, Richard Morris Hunt, who had designed many a mansion for the Vanderbilt family, the mansion was built by the John Jacob Astor IV, the Astor family playboy, for him and his mother, Caroline, the self-appointed queen of New York society and known to everyone as simply, THE Mrs. Astor. Mrs. Astor had originally reigned at a four-bay brownstone on 34th Street ~ currently today the present site…