The best mansions in Newport once served as summer “cottages” for the wealthy. Learn about architecture, gardens, and landscapes.
This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.
Former 'Tonight Show' host Jay Leno and his wife, Mavis, purchased an oceanfront mansion in Newport, Rhode Island.
Find facts and photos for some of America's most famous mansions, including Newport mansions, Gilded Age mansions, plantation homes, and grand manors.
Find facts and photos for some of America's most famous mansions, including Newport mansions, Gilded Age mansions, plantation homes, and grand manors.
Photos reveal the sad state of Lynnewood Hall in the US state of Pennsylvania. The mansion, was completed in 1900 on the orders of millionaire streetcar tycoon Peter Widener.
This is the Rockefeller Manor known as Kykuit which is a dutch word that means "look out." John D. Rockefeller built this gorgeous estate w...
Find facts and photos for some of America's most famous mansions, including Newport mansions, Gilded Age mansions, plantation homes, and grand manors.
One of my favorite Fifth Avenue Mansions. A very little known house that, from the outside, looks dull and dreary.The inside, however, is all marble, gilt, crystal and opulence. The layout couldn't be better than a Hollywood movie set of a Fifth Avenue Mansion. It has it all! Mr. Salomon died in 1919, and, after the dispersal of his fine art and antiques collection, the house was demolished in 1924. Today, on the site of 1020 Fifth Avenue is now one of Fifth Avenue's finest apartment buildings, which was designed by Warren & Wetmore. More pictures to come. Click HERE to see 1st and 2nd floor stairhall. Click HERE to see the 2nd floor Master Bedroom. Links: In an Earlier Time of Boom and Bust, Rentals Also Gained Favor, New York Times William A. Salomon Obituary, New York Times
Revisit the opulent Gilded Age mansions of 5th Avenue in NYC, both past and present, and discover what purpose they serve today!
She had three sprawling luxury homes at her disposal, but Huguette Clark chose to spend the last 20 years of her life holed up in a New York hospital room. Her father became as rich as Rockefeller from mining copper and founded the city of Las Vegas, but Huguette wasn't your average American heiress
The 40-room Rockefeller mansion before the murders … What the heck’s a Kykuit? Kykuit (rhymes with “die-cut”) is a 40-room estate built by one of America’s most stori…
Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan contains remarkable pictures of ostentatious buildings now besieged by nature, from 'haunted' New York mansions to derelict hotels in Japan.
BEHIND THE SCENES AT A GILDED-AGE COTTAGE All the Newport mansions are over-the-top grand, for the self-made millionaires who built them wanted to look as if they came from old money, and to achieve that, they were willing to spend a lot of new money. Touring these summer “cottages” today, you gawk at expansive gardens, expensive European art and furniture, sumptuous ballrooms and guest rooms, and enough rococo molding to impress any king named Louis. But beyond the ubiquitous gilt of the Gilded Age, each mansion is unique, as is each tour. Exhibit A: the Rooftop and Behind the Scenes Tour at The Elms. Think of this tour as the American Up the Down Staircase. Edward J. Berwind, a coal magnate from Philadelphia, built The Elms in 1901. Modeled after Paris's Chateau d'Asnieres, replete with about ten acres of formal French gardens, The Elms is so grand that, as you approach the main building, you are astonished to learn that the palace-like edifice on your right is merely the carriage…
Mit Meeren, Seen und Flüssen, die ein Gutteil der Oberfläche der Erde nehmen, war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis die Strukturen, die typisch fürs Land sind, beginnen, ihren Weg zum Wasser zu machen....
Small firms are popping up in the rural Midwest that buy old barns to feed remodelers' demand for weathered wood. As more historic barns come down, is the iconic American rural landscape fading away?
photo from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York The area around Fifth Avenue and 54 th Street during the Civil War wa...
Find facts and photos for some of America's most famous mansions, including Newport mansions, Gilded Age mansions, plantation homes, and grand manors.
The best mansions in Newport once served as summer “cottages” for the wealthy. Learn about architecture, gardens, and landscapes.
Former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola single-mindedly pursued a remarkable vision when building the Connecticut home where he lives with his superstar wife, Thalia
Once the site of jazz parties for New York’s wealthiest socialites, much of Long Island's Gilded Age history now lies in ruin.
An Upper East Side mansion is Gabellini Sheppard’s largest residential project ever.
These historic Southern plantations are worth a visit on your next trip below the Mason-Dixon line
Set at the highest point in Westchester Country, Kykuit, home to four generations of Rockefellers, can’t be seen from the road. Its grandeur reveals itself slowly. Visitors are shuttled up a long hill from a remote parking lot and at first glance, the house, named after the Dutch word for look out,
American photographer James Casebere creates micro towns, buildings and environments for his works, now on show at Brussels' Bozar Centre for Fine Arts.
The 8,000 sq.-ft. Sonoma County property has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms
1:12 Scale - Flat Pack Kit – Front Opening - Easily assembled – Made from Baltic Birchwood, ready to be painted - Picture is for display only to s
