Gilded age mansions new york

Paul Thompson on Instagram: “The New York mansions of the gilded age may have been demolished long ago, but if you stroll down Fifth Avenue today and the light is just…”

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…

Download this stock image: Colorized view, looking north across the intersection of 5th Avenue and 57th Street, of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II House, New York, New York, May 1910. The home, built in 1883 was the largest private home in Manhattan. Visible above it is the Plaza Hotel. (Photo by Burton Holmes) - CXAARG from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

In the heart of Manhattan's prestigious Upper East Side near Central Park, 4 East 79th Street stands as a tribute to history, a testament to restoration, and an embodiment of architectural elegance.

The James F. D. Lanier House in New York City was built in the early 20th century but features modern touches like an in-house spa and hot tub.

After a devastating fire, the 1905 Fifth Avenue residence is back on the market for $50 million.

The new wealth of America's Gilded Age led to a shift in architecture, causing Manhattan’s wealthiest to build lavish mansions. HBO's new series "The Gilded Age" gives a glimpse into this era.

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The Gilded Age architecture of Stanford White, Richard Morris Hunt, and more can be seen on the new HBO drama about the period

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…

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 Beaux Arts-style residence was inspired by Versailles, built by the architects behind Grand Central Station, Warren & Wetmore, for a New York stockbroker-turned governor of Rhode Island in 1905. In 1925, it was purchased by Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane White, granddaughter of railroad t

DailyMail.com takes a look back in history at Manhattan's most glamorous Gilded Age mansions - owned by the likes of the Astors and the Vanderbilts - and reveals what stands there today.

Zestimate® Home Value: $26,653,355. THE ARCHITECT: STANFORD WHITE No other architect dominated the Gilded Age to the extent of Stanford White of the esteemed firm of McKim, Mead & White. For almost 30 years, from 1879 to 1912, the firm was the architect of choice for the most glorious projects of the day: a redesign of The White House, Pennsylvania Station and the Century and Metropolitan Clubs in New York, the Boston Public Library - and the creative genius at the pinnacle of the firm was…

The "Gold Coast" of the Upper East Side is home to some of the neighborhood's most opulent residences, and one of those homes—a 19th-century mansion on East 76th Street—just went on the market...

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Before the limestone towers of Fifth and Park Avenues completed their social ascendence, the mansion was the only acceptable way for the extravagantly wealthy to live in the city

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.