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Here are all of the historic houses featured in The Gilded Age—including The Breakers, Marble House, Lyndhurst Mansion, and more in New York and Rhode Island. ... John Greim - Getty Images.
Operated as a house and Gilded Age museum [11] more images: Shadow Brook Farm: 1893: Tudor Revival: H. Neill Wilson: Stockbridge: Burned down in 1956 [19] Albert Cameron Burrage House: 1899 Châteauesque: Charles Brigham: Boston: Today, Apartments Bellefontaine 1899 Carrère and Hastings: Lenox: Built for Giraud Foster, now a hotel more images ...
The term Gilded Age was applied to the era by 1920s historians who took the term from one of Mark Twain's lesser-known novels, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). The book (co-written with Charles Dudley Warner ) satirized the promised " golden age " after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold ...
Lynnewood Hall is the second largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the United States and once housed the most ... Historical aerial photos of the estate in the ...
In the Gilded Age, wealthy members of society thought of themselves as royalty and modeled their homes after European palaces accordingly. King Louis XIV commissioned Grand Trianon in 1670.
During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or around $200 billion in today's currency.
In The Gilded Age, the Breakers' Great Hall and Music Room act as Bertha Russell's (played by Carrie Coon) ballroom. This work of Neo-Italian Renaissance architecture was built between 1893 and ...
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