11 Most Opulent MANSIONS on MILLIONAIRE’S ROW (New York City)
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- New York’s Fifth Avenue! The place where the richest families in America would come to flaunt their wealth and outdo one another! The place where grandiose mansions were built, and a robust culture of pomp, fanfare, and glamour was established.
Today, we are taking you on a trip to New York City. But not just anywhere in New York City. Today, we’re taking you straight to 5th Ave. An avenue known for hosting some of the most moneyed families in American history, so much so, that for a period of time it was called Millionaire’s Row.
Located on Manhattan Island, along midtown 5th Ave, well into the eastern borders of Central Park, Millionaire’s Row got its start in the mid-1800s, when it became trendy for the wealthy to build their mansions close to the Astors on 5th Ave and 34th street. It wasn’t until the later part of the century when the millionaires further ventured into midtown and then further up into the Upper East Side, that the avenue was coined the term “Millionaire’s Row”.
Today, though still a very wealthy part of Manhattan, Billionaire’s Row is now center stage, and much of the extravagant homes have been demolished. However, there are a few that still remain standing. And if you’ve got a few minutes to spare, you’re welcome to come along with us on our tour of the most memorable, most outstanding mansions that existed in the history of this most swanky avenue .
Our tour will start in midtown Fifth Ave, taking you all the way into the Upper East Side to a section they call Carnegie Hill.
So without further ado, here are the 11 Most Opulent Mansions on Millionaire's Row!
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11 Most Opulent MANSIONS on MILLIONAIRE’S ROW
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I think it’s awful that these beautiful buildings were torn down for glass high-rises.
I agree with you.. Our world will never see such beautiful architecture again.
makes more sense to me. NY got too popular and having mansions made less sense when space was so limited on the island.
Glass is cheap and don't require 90 servants, a guy with a squeegee will do.
Who cares.....
@@jannepetersen4660 People that appreciate beauty perhaps? They are entitled to their opinions are they not? I personally do care, but at the same time I appreciate that nothing stays the same and life moves on.
Demolishing beauties to replace them with ugly boxes, none of these should've ever come down
So true. Thanks for watching!
All over the world at one time.
The Rothchilds banking cartel set fires to every major city, and others demolished the World's Fair million dollar buildings. Watch WF Paris.
To me they look like remnants of the millennial reign of Christ, passed!.
Including the Castles and Cathedrals.
Founded means found it like that!
The Dark Ages may have been the opposite! Jesus'reign.
There was a mudflood, when it ended. Look for mudflood windows and sunken buildings.
Melted mountains everywhere.
Like Armegeddon already happened.
Some think we're in Satan loosed again from his prison for a short season to deceive. Rev 20.
We went backwards! Everything is ugly. And a lie!
Including history.
The fact that NYC allowed these buildings to be demolished shows how short sighted they all were/are.
Not short-sighted at all. Financially practical. You get a hell of a lot more taxes out of an office/apartment building than a single-family private home.
In my estimation, Millionaires Row had much more style, glamour, opulence and grace than Billionaires Row ever will.
A friend of mine, who is a Real estate broker For the properties on billionaires row took me on a tour of some of the places and.... Although some of the amenities and definitely views are rather stunning, I found The allegiant style is cold, Common And lackluster.
It is super sad to see them demolished
Truly is a shame these were all torn down!
I rather have the millionaire mansions, then these high rise glass buildings with stores, what a shame..
After 50 years in Manhattan I moved west.
But before I moved, repeatedly I visited The Frick Collection on Fifth at 70th Street -- great size (not too big) and I so wish that someday they would service the organ at the top of the stairs and hold a concert. Also, for anyone attending a Fifth Avenue parade like the St. Patty's Day Parade, outside The Frick is one of the best places to view it -- no litter, no drunken kids from the suburbs, small, manageable crowds -- pleasant.
I love how he says " Fancy Shamancy" with a serious authoritative British accent . This narrator is fabulous
You showed the Harkness Mansion, now home of the Commonwealth Fund, at the beginning of your video, and then didn’t talk about it. Too much time spent on demolished homes, and hardly any spent on still extant buildings. Shortsighted.
In the first paragraph the narrator talks about former homes they will be discussing
The Morgan library/house is a beautiful building and interior.
It's a shame how New York treated its beautiful mansions...incredible...and if you look at NY now...skyscrapers & modern ugliness...I'm so glad I live in Amsterdam, where we have all these 17th Century canals & mansions...
Your comments about the Duke family's ownership of the house on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street were very interesting. I didn't know about it's multigenerational association with the Dukes. There is though another still-standing Duke family residence nearby absolutely worthy of mention. On the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 78th Street is now the beautiful NYU Art Institute, which was built as the home of James B. Duke, of the aforementioned North Carolina industrial family.
I loved the Frick house i visited it on a trip to New York its such a shame all the others were torn down
Loved your virtual tour. Thank you. So very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for keeping history alive! I love to watch your videos and I totally enjoy them! Maybe you could do a video about rich celebrities fancy new York homes.
Will add it to our list. Thank you!
I thoroughly enjoy all your videos! Thank you so much for creating this great space on CZcams! Keep doing what you're doing
Thank you so much!
Excellent! Thank you for this!
Glad it was helpful!
Too bad that these mansions on Fifth Avenue were torn down and only replaced by building for businesses even luxury condos, the great history of New York Fifth Avenue.
Often they would give the owner of the mansion a grand apartment in the new structure for them to live in, to incentivize them to sell out. (the luxury apts had better views of the park too) Remember, income tax came in and property taxes were expensive, and generations that followed the original builders didn't have the same relative wealth as the family founder......I think it is too bad too! I have often thoughts ho they could have been saved, but few have that kind of money, or think it makes sense to save them, except nowadays, the super-rich are more plentiful in NY, such as hedge fund billionaire's. It's still expensive to keep them.
Many mansions in many places were demolished because of the expenses. This is true in Millbrook NY too, as an example.
Great video!
The Clark Mansion (Clark's Foley) is part of a fascinating story as told in the book "Empty Mansions" by Bill Dedman and Paul Clarke Newell Jr. that tells of William A. Clark's life, a self-made millionaire, and how he made his fortune. He was also a US Senator. The focus of the book is his daughter who died recently, I think in 2014, at age 104 or something like that. She owned several empty mansions and 5th Ave apartments but she lived her last 25 yrs in a nearby hospital...by choice! One such mansion in California had been kept pristine in case she might happen to come by, but her last visit there was when she was a child. Read the book...I couldn't put it down.
It just makes me sad they would demolish the beautiful homes.
Great Video, very Informative, I see these Mansions everyday when I go and come from work, I work at Lenox hill hospital on 77 between park and Lexington Avenue..They’re very Beautiful..
Thanks for watching!
One that you missed is the magnificent "Gilded Age" mansion in Murray Hill Manhattan - the James F. Lanier house!...just 2 blocks off 5th Avenue.
Great video living in NYC its sad people get rid of history. Id love to drive down 5ave in 1890s just to see that no apartment just mansions
In LA where I'm from they had a place called bunker hill and mansions were built in 1880 by 1910s it was considered obsolete and by 1950s rundown. The whole bunker hill streets and mansions were torn down and flattened the street to make way for LA music center. No one knows about that beauty just like not seeing 5ave in its heyday at least some still exist. You should do a story on bunker hill lots of movies were filmed there
Thank you. We will research it.
So sad that these beautiful buildings have been lost 😞
Thanks, loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm always amazed that the homes entry doors just opened onto the street with nothing but perhaps a sidewalk between the street and the home.
You missed the Otto Kahn Mansion. It sits directly north and across the street from the Carnegie Mansion. In my opinion it somewhat dwarfs the Carnegie Mansion in mere bulk. Anyone who would walk the said stretch of Fifth Avenue would immediately notice it, though probably not by name.
I remember walking by and around this mansion numerous times, once of a warm spring evening in particular. I especially enjoyed how it had a drive within it, to pull in off the street and allow guests to disembark under cover and within the footprint of the building.
So many gorgeous historic mansions razed and replaced with UGLY commercialism!
Ugh the demolishing makes me so sad
God bless all
Very nice compilation! Great information and photos
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for visiting!
Who's in charge?? These beautiful homes should stay where they are!
No one can Master the Architecture
of those buildings again!!!
Good morning everyone
The lack of preservation and respect for beautiful old buildings is shocking.
Question; would this be the area where the Show The Gilded Age bw located? Thx
Yes, when they are in Manhattan.
985 5th Ave, one of the twin Brokaw mansions on 5th, was 25.5 by 115 feet, had 6 floors plus lower level, and 30 rooms. It sold in 1941 for $100,000.
That’s a fantastic price!
@@schmancy2978 Not if you were the seller!
I'm curious as to why they were built so close to other buildings. If I had a mansion, I'd want it to be surrounded by a decent amount of land and not be so close to my neighbors 😂
New York real estate was (and still is) highly scarce. People are happy with the little they can get.
For some, these were their places in town, with mansions situated on larger properties elsewhere, depending on the family. Some of these were in fact their grander homes, since showing off to society was part of the allure, though their remote "cottages" were mansions in their own right. Few of those families spent their summers in NYC. So déclassé you know :)
The Garden Court at the Frick mansion that you show was not built during his lifetime. It opened in 1935 when the house reopened as a museum.
2 houses that I'm surprised didn't make your list: the actual James B. Duke mansion (corner 5th Ave and E 78th St) and the Otto Kahn mansion just across E 91st St from the Carnagie mansion.
Thanks for the info on the Frick. For this list, we chose to go with the most extravagant or those 5th Ave mansions with very unique characteristics. Thanks for visiting!
@@schmancy2978 Then what about the Tiffany interiors and the enormous art collection of the Henry O. Havemeyer mansion on the corner of 5th Ave and E 66th St?
I thought you said you would show the houses that were still standing not what is there now?
You left out the Otto Kahn mansion which is extant, huge and exquisite.
This seem Av Paulista SP 🇧🇷, previously there has many old mansions, today every turned into modern bulding.😢
Congratulations
These buildings should of been kept, they were beautiful & they could of been used for movies & TV series story lines such as gossip girl & other rich people
Number 11 was beautiful
Agreed. Thanks for watching!
So sad they tore down most of those beautiful homes.
Regarding the Warburg Mansion/Jewish Museum, you skipped over the first, modern addition which, like Kevin Roche's addition, connected the Museum with the next building. The first addition had a totally Modernistic look - complete contrast with the entirr Warburg facade.😢
I was hoping to see current homes not a history lesson.
Interesting video about NYC disasterous architectural demises (they did not even need a Chicago fire!)
In 1912, My dad was an 8 year old Italian immigrant doing odd jobs for the super rich (what child labor laws?)...even scrubbing the Carrera marble staircases for the Roosevelts..(and no, he was not impressed with the fierce French communist guardian of Miss Eleanor).
By the time I moved to NYC in 1992, (understandably) had a complete blind spot about the mansions- past or present...
Honestly, grateful that I did not know about your research when i lived in NYC...at that time, just did not have spiritual maturity to shrug off the games of the super rich.
Does anyone know, did these homes have onsite rooms for servants? Top floor maybe, or basement?
They all had servants quarters.
feel like central park was just build around the mansions and not reverse. What was the reason all these different people decided to build right next to each other. And where did they park their cars?
How appalling to have had those beautiful mansions demolished. For profit.
I can’t watch any more , waest of money , Webster of art , west of Beauty ….soo sad
saw this and almost wondered where the heck are these so called mansions. Glad I'm not crazy and they just been knocked down now. Thought my entire life in NYC was lived in tunnel vision.
Most cities have historical preservation societies that have preserved notable buildings. NYC has a bad habit of not preserving historical buildings and they just keep tearing down the old and replacing them with bigger buildings. No sentiment, just concerned with money.
I personally went to 5th Avenue in New York, because I was already at the BANK. So I took a stroll down the block. 🖊️
These houses being demolished is congruent with my fears of investing $1oo million on a billionaire row penthouse. The Titanic might have ruined the Astor's but if banks continue to relocate out from New York, and the situation on the street doesn't improve, things could change and the real estate might not find a buyer who will pay the astronomical prices. You wouldn't tear down a condo building on Billionaire row, but a city which has extremely expensive property needs to continue growing in wealth and prosperity. Detroit is what it is because people, over time, decided to abandon the city, and technology allows people to do the same work from anywhere. American culture will thrive far better when families think dynastically. These beautiful houses are being replaced with ugly structures.
New York needs a masterplanned community just north of central park. It's there where they should invest in greater density, but still keep the buildings 8-1o stories tall. When you come south, you start to see more money spent on finer aesthetics, but it gives plenty of 6 figure earners, who are priced out, an opportunity to get on the property ladder, and increasing the property value north of the park ought to increase the property values south of the park, and the north park people have a great view of the park and billionaire's row. I don't know if you can have restaurants, I don't think you're allowed to utilize any natural gas in the city.
It's good ambition to have people want to build such marvelous abodes, but we have to remember what Immanual Kant stated before we do, we need a system which allows us to retain ownership of their property. Making the decision to build needs to be considered very carefully, but it is most helpful making these decisions if there is consistency regarding ownership once built. Property tax rates ought to be fixed and not subject to change. Having families in the city occupying these homes for generations and paying taxes year in year out results in a better city because they will have been invested in the city for generations. You can't accomplish as much from tax receipts as you can from citizens genuinely interested in making the correct investments which sustain the city. The government ought to want every citizen to own property, and it ought not concern itself too much regarding who owns what. Penalizing people for being ambitious just decreases the ambition possessed by every person in the city. People think it ignorant to be ambitious because it ends in ruin, but that's because of jealously, not a real reason which is justified.
Imagine if the Astors still hosted and carried on that tradition, the culture would be benefitted and they would be a New York family which attracts people and compels them to take pride in the city.
So sad they take out so many historical houses...and good they preserve others in museums.
This has to be the most tragic video I have ever seen regarding the destruction of architectural masterpieces; only to be replaced by a ridiculous concrete jungle of ugly buildings.
My God, but didn’t they have more money than sense lol 🙈🙈🙈
It is so sad that the heritage of literally the men who built America is gone except for a few treasures that the Mayor got bullied-quite rightly-by the public to preserve these gems instead of demolish them.
WHO LET SO MANY PHILLISTINES LOOSE IN NYC IN 1927?
What is absolutely even more amazing at how these children and grandchildren frittered away their family fortune that the Scion had actually worked very hard for. I am glad that rich parents are a little better these days by actually encouraging their children to work for their inheritance. Remember too that these spendthrifts were squandering their money long before there was ever and INCOME TAX!!! Imagine getting your check each month with no taxes taken out!
Well said. Thanks for sharing!
Not really true. When Cornelius 2 died, he was actually just as rich as he was when he got his inheritance and would have been richer had he not given part of his fortune to charity. The reason the Vanderbilts lost their fortune was because their business was becoming irrelevant
@@annonymously331 There were so many others though who never worked a day in their lives and just partied and partied. Part of the problem was they had so many children and only, usually the oldest male was the one who took over the business while the others just frittered it away. Some families like the Fords made room for other children in the business. I was neighbors with William Hearst III or IV-it was 1969 so I forget. He was in my town of 30,000 for the summer working at our local Hearst paper to learn from the ground up between years in college. We had a party and he brought EdselFord III in his brand new Shelby Mustang. They were both down to earth and introduced themselves as Willy and Eddie. But they both were at least expected to do something!
At least in New York they build something that still looks quite nice and impressive but in Romania for exemple is the same story. They demolished lots of beautiful old buildings from the interbelic era but they build those ugly soviet miserable concrate building all over the country. Nothing beautiful in them but in NY those skyscrapers are still impresive and give a amazing panorama. Especially at night.Great video!
God this is depressing! 😢
Burns me up that the gems were torn down by greedy developers to build ugly eyesores in their place.
It's not the cost of build its the maintenance that's the killer. Taxpayers beware.
Those gorgeous pre-existing Tartarian mansions that they all bought within a 5-10 year period, coincidentally..... For almost all of them to be demolished within a few years of each other. ..... Coincidentally...... Sure okay.
Sad that these buildings have been destroyed
I feel awful for the millionaires had there wonderful homes torn down to create a billionaires row.
It’s something that hurts me to the core daily. I suggest we start a protest ……oh and lots of good looting as well
It's sad that history was torn down for these horrible looking buildings.
So many of these were downright ugly. Maintenance costs must have been exorbitant, as well as taxes. It's nice to see that the ones that were saved (Frick, Carnegie, WIllard) were the most attractve, most unostentatious.
😂 What row you mean the empty spaces😮 Now if you can fill it with "humans" and stop labeling "Millionaire" Cashing now that's priceless 🎉
How could they have been demolished to be replaced by shitty cheap and ugly modern buildings?. I can understand it.
I would go see them... but New York looks crowded as all hell. And most of them are gone.
💘 *PromoSM*
Nope, can’t watch where there used to be beautiful mansions that were replaced with mediocre boxes.
Isn't it wonderful to know- that you could just as easily be assaulted mugged car jacked smashed in the head walking out of your house on 5th Avenue as you could anywhere else in Manhattan because Manhattan on the Democrat rule is a cesspool of violence and lawlessness where criminals do not serve in jail and innocent civilians look over their shoulders at all times knowing that there is literally no one there authorized to protect them and that is reality and I defy anyone to say it is not!
Lmfao off your meds again?
Manhattan has always been that way. Democratic rule or not. Come on. Smh
THOSE "DEVELOPERS" RUIN EVERYTHING
Greed and unfettered capitalism turned beauty into ugliness over the years in New York. If still standing, those mansions would be worldwide tourist attractions and eternal symbols of the greatest city in the world. Look what they've done to the once deliciously seedy 42nd street. Where is the Carnegie deli? And the Stage? What's become of Herald Square? Oy!