Gilded age mansions

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…

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For a cool $80 million, you could live like New York City's Gilded Age elite in a Beaux-Arts mansion at 1009 Fifth Ave!

The story of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion begins the same way New York’s other Gilded Age palaces got their start: with a socially prominent family in need of a showpiece of a home. In…

Situated in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, the quaint townhouse gives prospective owners the chance to travel back in time.

Lost Mansions of the Gilded Age: Chetwode, Newport, Rhode Island Today I am going to start a series that will appear as a ongoing look at the hundreds of great,"Gilded Age"mansions that no longer exist. Many of these magnificent homes and estates, built from 1880-1930, in a period commonly referred to as,"America's Gilded Age", were modeled after the palaces of Europe and were intended to last just as long. But in less than 100 years since their creation, many have vanished without anyone…

A wealthy financier built the 32-bedroom estate for family who never set foot in it. Now the eerily decrepit mansion is set to get a big renovation.

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