20 Most Amazing MANSIONS of the GILDED AGE
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- It was the late 1800s. A time of rapid economic growth in American history. A time when industrialization, technological advances, and urbanization brought in colossal wealth. A time when all the progress created a unique dynamic among the classes. And a time when modesty was all out the window and bold displays of opulence was all the rage.
Today we are taking you back to the Gilded Age, a period so few know much about, but one surrounded by much fascination. We figured what better way to learn about this fantastic period than by taking you on a tour of some of the most decadent and most authentic Gilded Age mansions that stood the test of time.
These are the same mansions you can easily visit if you’d like to witness this alluring age before your very eyes. Some fall within the official Gilded Age (1870-1900), others just a tad beyond. Nevertheless, they all stand as a testament to this bygone era, and we can promise none of them will disappoint.
So without further ado here are the top 20 Most AMAZING MANSIONS of the GILDED-AGE.
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20 MOST AMAZING MANSIONS OF THE GILDED AGE
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Visited the Biltmore Estate in 2018, and I have to say that being that wealthy in the Gilded Age must have been an experience. What a magnificent home!
I’ve always enjoyed the Christmas at Biltmore vids. You’re very lucky 🎄
I visited Biltmore at Christmas time and it was magnificent…..I couldn’t help think, as well, what it would have been like to live there…either as servant staff or resident.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the video. My husband and I have visited a number of these homes and others are on the bucket list. It was fun to be reminded of the ones we've visited. We lived in North Carolina and have visited Biltmore a number of times. It's truly magnificent and enjoyable year round. It's located in Asheville, which is a destination in its own right.
Thank you. Glad you’re enjoying our vids!
This is the most beautiful apartment. I love the way Schmancy goes about his job. But the truth is; without making good investments, no one can ascertain the kind of money required to own such properties. I am retiring next yr at 55 with 3 houses paid off worth 40.5 million. I realized that the secret to making a million is making better investments.
I grew up half a mile away from #11 Oheka Castle. It had been abandoned for many years and my friends and I would go exploring there all the time. Let me say that before they renovated this place, it was by far, THE scariest place on earth at night!
Since then, I’ve been to many a catered event there and it has been returned to its former glory.
What a fabulous contribution to this video. Really enjoy the idea of touring along side you at night! Was it abandoned with NO furnishings? Was it in a state of disrepair? Always curious if a treasure of something is left behind.
Thank you! That’s great to know!
@@b.walker5955 for a short period it had been a boys military academy and they had left all sorts of things behind; parade rifles, uniforms, desks, etc.
It wasn’t in too much of a stare of disrepair as the building is made of granite or marble, or whatever the stone is. But the school staff had literally just left the stuff behind. It was dusty as hell, and dark with broken windows so try to picture the beast’s castle before he switched back to a prince!🤣
The silhouette of the building against the night sky was scary af!
Keep in mind, it was built on a man made hilltop to be the highest point on Long Island.
On clear nights from the top floor you could easily see NYC to the west and CT to the north.
So much fun!
@@billy1673 Ok that may be even cooler. The military academy element! My husband and I often find ourselves inside an abandoned building or new build new construction. Oops that window on the 3 rd floor was left open and we feel obligated to scale the wall and close it. ; ) Well that's our story anyway. Thanks again for the fun stories.
Very cool. There are ruins of King Zog’s estate in the woods of Muttontown. Near Syosset
Fabulous list.
I grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois.
The spectacular Armour Estate is now Lake Forest Academy. The house has been configured for offices but it's original grandeur is obvious at every turn. And that garden is surreal.
The Schweppes lakefront Estate is spectacular. (Also Lake Forest Illinois)
I visited Viscaya in South Miami Coconut Grove, FL.
James Deering's ocean Estate
Awe inspiring.
I enjoyed touring Hearst Castle while I lived in L.A. You could almost feel the movie stars who partied there.
This list - split between the East & West Coasts - has given me wonderful daydreams of road-trips going from house to house! Throw in a tour of 10 Frank Loyd Wright homes and you will have just about seen most of the United States, neighborhood by neighborhood! 🚐
I hope you do a list of Florida’s mansions- would make a great winter road-trip!
These are excellent ideas! Will definitely add them to our list for future videos! Thanks for watching and contributing.
When someone in the comments mentioned Dodge mansions it made me think of those beautiful Addison Mizner mansions in Palm Beach
I have been to many of the Newport mansions and they are all magnificent
I'm surprised you didn't include the Frick Museum in New York City. A beautiful mansion, and one of the few Gilded Age mansions remaining on 5th Avenue.
Too many to list. Though we mentioned the Frick in our Manhattan video.
The Frick, one of the most beautiful mansions in Manhattan!
The 33-room Maymont Mansion, built in 1893, in Richmond, Virginia, should be on this list because it houses a collection of the original owners’ furnishings and has never been lived in or used by anyone except them. It sits on a 100-acre estate in the middle of Richmond with wildlife exhibits, a children’s farm, nature center, Italian garden, Japanese garden, and walking paths throughout.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention. This is the first we’ve heard of Maymont. We will try to include it in a future video! 👍
Isn't it called the Dooley Mansion. Located in Maymont park?
I just watched this video and was coming to comment that he missed Maymont! I’m so glad you commented and added this information! It’s a beautiful gilded age mansion!
I visited almost all mansions in Newport, plus East coast. They are all beautiful, with amazing art collections, gardens. But, seems like nobody wanted to live like that after air condition/central heating was invented and improved. Some were abandoned, restored.
Very cool
It was when FDR introduced land taxes. No one could afford it after a while. Like now
@@diane5836 Right. People don't realize that Americans didn't always have property tax or income tax. Without those two things, Americans could amass great wealth quickly. Sadly, both property tax and a graduated income tax (make more, they take more) are two tenets of communism because they prevent people from actually owning real property and creating wealth, which is exactly what they do. Think you own your home now that it's paid off? Stop paying your property taxes and see what happens to the home you think you "own". It's impossible for anyone to truly "own" their home because of property taxes, and that's one of the goals of communism--to destroy private property ownership so all property and businesses are owned by the state. Thank FDR, the closet commie, for that.
It also sometimes happened that the rich husband would die, and if there was no son to take over the family business, the socialite wife would start selling things off, including the house and family company, and downsize. That's what happened with my favorite post-Gilded Age mansion, Whitemarsh Hall in Wyndmoor, PA.
I have toured five of the 20. Thank you for the overview. Newport is lovely & they provide very informative tours. Biltmore was enormous (but dark IMO). The Biltmore tour was via renting a headset and going from room to room.
Thanks for watching!
The Carolands in Hillsborough has been stunningly restored. I saw years before that restoration and it was amazing then.
Wonderful !
Many thanks!
There's no rich like old-money rich.
#13 ( Old Westbury - my favorite) was also the setting for the start of "North by Northwest" as well as Ryan O'Neal's parents' home in "Love Story".
If I'm not mistaken, exteriors for the 1974 "The Great Gatsby " were filmed at Rosecliff.
Old Westbury Gardens has a romantic old world English vibe to it. It truly transports you to another time. And yes, it was Rosecliff in the Great Gatsby. Thanks for tuning in!
Stan Hywet Hall would fit right in here!
Very beautiful. I want to visit theVanderbilt Mansions🎉
My parents were lucky enough To visit FILOLI while lving in Calufornia in 2000-2005. Such a beautiful estate. I am from the Philippines.
I lived in Newport, RI during the mid 1970’s and seen many of the mansions via school trips! As much as I loved the Breakers, I still love Biltmore even more to this day! I’m only about a little over an hour from Asheville down in South Carolina! Ya’ll come see us! ❤
Rosecliff is my favorite !!!
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All of the homes are very impressive!!!
Marble house and Rosecliff are the most architecturally beautiful in my opinion.
They failed to mention the Blair mansion in Peapack Gladstone New Jersey one of the largest mansions ever built on the East Coast Mozart design and Louie the 13th
I'm shocked you did not include Lynwood Hall in this list. Much more spectacular than some of the other ones you reviewed. Nevertheless great video though, thanks.
Good call! Though we chose only the mansions that were fully restored. Thanks for sharing!
#3, Hearst Castle: "Donated" he says. Actually the Inheritance Taxes plus Maintenance Costs FORCED the heirs to dispose of the property, even the State of California was nearly at a loss to accept the estate. Being no one [at the time] rich enough to afford the property it had to be given to the State, [the state did not want it.] Also, the garden was used as part of the Movie "Commando" (1985).
Seems to have been the fate of many of the massive estates of those times. Thank you for sharing!
A great video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you.
All beautiful 🤩 mansions , villa , chateau are a breathtaking absolutely gorgeous stunning 🤩.💐🙏🙏❤️❤️🥀🥰🍀
I visited Biltmore a few years ago what a beautiful mansion.
I used to be friends with Gary Melius. He owns and lives at OHEKA Castle. We had a falling out a few years ago back in 2006. He was a VERY GOOD MAN. I still miss him.😊
1:27 a twin sized bed!? What paupers 🤪
5:40 Whitehall
9:21 Biltmore Estate
10:13 Oheka castle (Versailles of New York)
13:43 Vanderbilt Mansion
16:04 Filoli
18:14 Lockwood Matthews Mansion
11:51 Old Westbury Gardens
14:46 Kykuit
Not the full list, for anyone using this as a reference. 20 are covered.
Although it was built slightly after the Gilded Age (Roaring 20s), Meadow Brook Hall in Rochester Michigan is also a great home to visit! At 120 rooms - the home of Matilda Dodge-Wilson is the largest of the Detroit Auto Baron estates and one of the largest Tudor style homes anywhere. It is as beautifully upkept as any on this list and it is worthy of inclusion on any list of the top 20 finest mansions in America.
Good one! We’ll add it to our list, as we just may have to create a finest mansions video. Thanks for watching!
Don't forget Fairlane, Henry and Clara Ford's estate in Dearborn, Michigan. It's wrapping up a multi-year restoration that will take it back to the time when the Fords lived there. My parents used to be docents here.
@@texastitan76 That's another good one to visit. Meadow Brook is the largest in the Detroit area overall.
I love Hearst Castle but it really was mostly constructed in the 20's and beyond. Not so much Gilded Age.
@@erikh9991Always love the photos of the pool there ⭐️
I am a Reserve Officer, and my small section had a training mission at the Reserve Center at Newport, RI. On our time off, I took my small section of men, to the tours of the mansions. We were in awe of great success, of hard working, smart working, successful men.
I love this channel
Thank you!
No mention of the Bishop's Palace in Galveston, TX -- a glaring omission. Its variety of building materials and excellence in woodwork and masonry make it archetecturally important, in addition to its complex floorplan.
Love this. Unfortunately I had really no interest in history when younger but fascinated by it now. Finding it interesting that so many are now museums. Guess I'm going to have to add touring these (and others) on my lottery bucket list. 😁
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Nice collection… thou there be MANY MORE!!! Well Done
12:27 That home had to ship special Collyweston Slate from the English village of Collyweston, along with experts from the region, to entirely re-tile the roof quite recently. Collyweston slate is used in many of the beautiful stone villages and towns of Northamptonshire and Rutland (as well the famous stone town of Stamford, Lincolnshire nearby); along with a large number of Oxford and Cambridge colleges. With the red brick of Old Westbury Gardens it does stick out a lot more than usual, thanks to 1. the Collyweston slate being so “new” and 2. in England it is used on buildings of local creamy/ golden stone (not brick), but it will weather nicely; and is such a beautifully crafted addition to the exterior.
Quite informative. Thank you for sharing with us!
I am shocked and dumbfounded why the magnificent Huntington Library in San Marino is not at the very top of your list. The Huntington families lived luxuriously and enjoyed a legacy on the east coast and contributed greatly to the development of California and Los Angeles. They continue to carry on the legacy on the west and east coast today. One more tidbit. Yes! My children studied at Portsmouth Abbey next to immaculately, well deserved, and highly acclaimed NEWPORT, RI. (I am acting rambunctious. Pass the margarine 😅)
Schmancy I was wondering if you could make a video of how much the mansions cost to make/how much would they be worth today to construct/or to sell….Can that be possible?
Thanks. Sounds like a great idea. We will add it to our list for future videos.
@@schmancy2978 thank you..I’ll look forward to seeing those videos…and thank you for responding I appreciate that..
14:45 I worked in Kykuit for few years @ 1990-1995. I knew every secret door, tunnel and barn. Luved the bat cave. We even caught some sun on the roof in lounge chairs.
I found many of the gardens really beautiful I am not really a fan of some of the decoration, that I feel is too much... but I think is amazing to see it and visit all the styles...
And maybe the parties and the servants... I don't know which to choose Maybe the Breakers for the view...Kiukut's sound was also lovely. Oheka Castle looks good Old Westbury Gardens.
Thanks for sharing!!
Very Good!
Thank you! Cheers!
I wish I was born into one of wealthy peoples familys . Such luxrury I could only dream of . I love these type of mansions . The vanderbilt in Asheville one is gorgeous ! ❤
What a wonderful place to own!
I've only been to one, Hearst Castle, which is exquisite. Would love to visit every single one of these places. Thank you for creating.
Thanks for watching!
Hi I thought Hearst Castle was gawdy!! The indoor pool creeped me out!! Also having a bedroom for his mistress Marion Davies while your wife is bedridden in the other room was a wrap for me
Whitehall in Palm Beach FL is amazing. Visited it to celebrate on my birthday, it was beautiful.
It truly is!
Awesome
And now the Vanderbilts are but gone and broke... insane what a few entitled generations can do to such a tremendous legacy.
COOL GARDENS
Amazing list! I would also add Lynnewood Hall in PA and Stan Hywet in OH.
Good call!
Lynnwood Hall is in frightful disarray, close to ruin. But a beautiful Horace Trumbauer mansion nonetheless. And currently on the market.
interesting you didn't list Mar A Lago or Palmetto II in Palm Beach... Both are drop dead stunning pieces from the 1920s
Thanks. Will consider them for future videos!
You nerd to include a segment on the Frick mansion in New York City - an architectural jewel and a world class art collection.
Thank you. We included Frick in our New York City video.
Been to the Carolands before in the late 70's... It was vacant for many years... We used to go by it during cross country runs for high school...
Nice to see my local Carson Mansion made the list, it really is exquisite. Formally/primarily a gentleman’s club, it’s now open to locals for $2k-$5k membership fee.
Thank you for the update! We will include it our next mention of the Carson Mansion.
Interesting how you ranked them, Hearst looked to be the most stunning
Lynnewood Hall is missing. The residence of the Wideners…a MUST!!!
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Old Louisville needs its own CZcams situation. The great expedition was there, and it is the largest conglomerate of Victorian homes in the world.
Thanks. We mentioned Old Louisville in our Victorians video (part 1).
@@schmancy2978 sweet! I’ll look for it. I just found you today!
I've been to the Vanderbilt Mansion when I visited my son last year. It's super huge and very beautiful.
6:52 the Sphinx'es are nice.
What about Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands? I could understand not including the Singer Mansion as it's in Canada within the same river, but it's massive and was built around the same time frame. Unfortunately when I had visited around 20 years or so ago, they only had the great hall and some of the main rooms restored and the grounds weren't very gardeney but it was still open for tours.
Thanks, we might include it in a future video on castles.
I have toured the Biltmore mansion four times. I wish l could have gone during Christmas 🎄 lt is beautiful in the pictures love seen.
It really is!
I live on Long Island and frequent these mansions and there are so many more not mentioned. I believe these mansions were built before “income tax”
Thanks. Looking forward to making a video just on the Gold Coast in the near future!
@@schmancy2978 that would be great! The Planting Fields Arboretum in Old Brookville the mansion is Cole Hall, The Vanderbilt Museum in Northport and The Nassau County Museum in Roslyn are amazing just to name a few. 😊
Casa Loma, Toronto, Stan Hywet Hall, Akron, The Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate, Grosse Pointe.....
Excellent picks. Perhaps there will have to be a part two. Thank you for watching!
The Lyndhurst Mansion was also the scenery for Dark Shadows...the New House.
Lyndhurst is not a 'Gilded Age' mansion - it was built in 1838.
FILOLI was built using money from Mr Bourn's Empire Mine Gold mine which is also worth visiting in Grass Valley as a state park. Story is that gold leaf was used in the FILOLI ball room.
Good to know! Thank you!
Cheekwood in Nashville TN, is Fabulous and well Preserved. I believe 1932, but well woth a Tour or Venue for a Wedding.
My self, I supply Palms Boxwoods and Hydrangeas for Weddings and Exclusive Parties at our Newport Rhode Island Mansions 🍃🌴
Perhaps one day, in another great video, you will include Branford House and the whole estate of Morton F. Plant. It is located at Avery Point, Groton, CT and is now a campus of the University of Connecticut.
Good informations about the wealthiest families of U.S.and their Mansions. Mumbai.India.Vasant Mody .
Crazy how old architecture is better than modern architecture
This should be called Beaux Arts age mansions
Suggestion for future videos: Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, OH, built by the Seiberling family, which started Goodyear Tire Co.
Thanks. Will add it to our list!
Fio;i is my favorite.......Not just because my Dad used to work at La Honda, CA next door to Woodside, CA...........The Gold Mine at Nevada City, CA that's a State Park and open to the public I believe was owned by the same Industrialist. He had a very nice English Country Cottage also built at the Mine for his visits !
Thanks for sharing!
One of my many toxic traits is comparing large houses to gilded age mansions, therefore I do not consider those large homes mansions.
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They are all neat to me.
At house #20, where is the H at the end of Pittsburgh, lol! So many beautiful mansions, but the best ones are Biltmore Estate, The Breakers, The Elms, Marble House, and Whitehall.
re #10. The wonderful and eternally fresh inspiring film 'Being there" was filmed in Biltmore Estate.
An excellent film indeed! Thank you for watching!
The Huntington estate (now an art museum, library and gardens) in San Marino, California.
Good one.
As a cultural institution, compared with the 20 sites listed in this video, the Huntington would be the most of public-trust properties. It's an outright formal museum of the visual arts, literary archives & botanical gardens. But Henry Huntington's residence post-dates the Gilded Age. Same with Hearst Castle.
My favorite mansion came just after the Gilded Age and no longer exists. It was called Whitemarsh Hall and built in 1921 on 300 acres in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania by Edward Stotesbury. It was so beautiful and the gardens so extensive that it was called the American Versailles.
I would like to see the Richtoffen Castle in Denver, Colorado, on the list.
Mar a lago is fantastic too. I have been in Palm Beach. It is such a piece of art. Excelente video!!! Exitos!
How could this list neglect to mention Vizcaya, one of the grandest and most elegant of them all? Surrounded by acres of formal Italian gardens with statuaries, grottoes and terraces; Vizcaya has an unsurpassed history of guests that include kings, queens, a pope, presidents, and prime ministers.
We wanted to keep it at 20. Since the upkeep at Vizcaya is not as amazing as the rest, it didn’t make the list. Thanks for watching!
Vizcaya is #21!
Sounds familiar 😉👍
Was hoping to see Stan Hywet in Akron, Ohio built for F.A. Sieberling the co-founder of Goodyear.
Went to the marble houde in Newport,each chair at the dinner table was made bronze and weighd 150 pounds a piece, pure gluttony of wealth
shame we dont build such beauty anymore.
Some other homes I would like to see highlighted are: Post, now C W Post College; Coe Estate now part of a beautiful gardens; JP Morgan home in Glen Cove, NY. It has been torn down but the RR station the JP had built for his personal use in Glen Cove is still standing (now called Nassau Station next to the Nassau Country Club (another beautiful former mansion); Woolworth Estate, Glen Cove has served as various things, including Grace Downs School; Pratt Estates, various in Glen Cove. One was the back drop for both Sabrina movies and another being used as a place not unlike the Biltmore Estate, both in Glen Cove. Glen Cove was part of the Gilded Age or what was called the Gold Coast. You could do a story just about Glen Cove with all the homes still standing.
Thanks will jot some of these down for perhaps a future video. Though several were mention on our Gold Coast LI video.
Maybe not the grandest nor the largest it remains, at least for me, the most elegant of all the Gilded Age mansions.
Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, is always my favorite. and speaking of Italianate mansions, you absolutely must list Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine.
Thank you. Will put it on our list for a future video.
@@schmancy2978 so polite, thank-you.
I have been on a golden age kick lately. My biggest take away is these people who created the original wealth were so hard. It amazes me how the second and third generadid not inherit the same Work ethic and alsoh how subsequent generations sell it off like it was meaningless. It makes you realize the need for a very detailed will. Which includes what happens to the property after your death.
I was waiting for Lynnewood Hall 😢
I can’t agree more!!! However it needs to be saved badly
Schmancy may have decided not to include it since it is in such serious need of restoration unlike the mansions in the video. It's a beautiful place and it DOES need to be saved, though! I wish them well.
I would like to see the Fairchild Estate which is on the North Shore of Long Island. It was built like a castle and movies were made there
Thanks. We will try to include it in a future video.
Amazing you didn't include Mara Lago, the grand Florida estate built by the Post family. Hello????
Thanks. We may do so in a future video.
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All along the area near Henry Clay Frick's home are gilded age mansions
There were many that were built in NYC, but unfortunately many, if not most, were razed to make room for GOD-ugly "skyscrapers", etc. All we have left are photographs of them, in their heyday.
Where are the bathrooms? I always wondered that after I discovered that the Palace of Versailles had no bathrooms.
Years lost to time kids today do not know about all of these home or about the people who lived in them they should teach them all about the homes people that had them❤
Henry Flagler owned the FEC Railway at the time.
Winterthur? Let's Go Brandon!