What Happened to George Crocker's Gilded Age Mansion in Manhattan?
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2022
- Some homes are wrapped in scandal, some hold memories that touch our hearts, and sometimes - those lines are blurred. Today we are exploring George Crocker’s gilded age mansion in Manhattan.
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Mansions and buildings of this era hold such grandeur. I appreciate the design and craftmanship by the many skilled tradesmen who fulfilled the owner's vision.
I like the way you find these lost mansions and the history you do of they. It's shame so many of these have been lost in the name of greed.
They were built in the name of greed; this was a private residence, not a public library or something for the good of all the people
They were also built by greed.
Thank you for making these videos. I'm a poor (26 year old) hillbilly that was born, raised and has always lived in a 50 mile radius in WV. I have always had an infatuation with architecture, particularly old architecture. I mainly have seen videos on the survivors, but not the casualties of progress. You are one of the few people who still discuss the architectural masterpieces we've lost. For this I thank you again.
Good for you for having an interest in architecture. I love this too. I pray that God will have good things for you in your days ahead. Maybe you can find a way to use your love for architecture. If this is what you want, God can make a way for you, if you would only believe 🙂. God Bless you and your family🙏.
Same I'm from summers county wv and was born poor as well and never knew nothing but the holler my grandparents owned and where my step dad took us running from child support from a previous family he made it love this stuff to buddy keep ya head up i made it out of them mtns and you can to if that's what you want there is better ways and you can always appreciate where you came from buddy hope ur doing well and still enjoying these videos like me bud
I am so saddened knowing these grand structures are gone and replaced by what looks like Soviet apartment blocks! Could you profile the Millionaires’ Row mansions that have survived to this day?
Don’t despair! There is a whole new Millionaires Row in Manhattan.
People have to live somewhere. I just wish they made those apartments less ugly.
@@Purvinska Tongue in cheek, but is it a row, or a tower? ;-)
@@Purvinska yeah but not as grand and masterpieces such as these mansions. These were built with passion and skill that you can’t compare with todays builders. Theyre lazy and zero passion.
@@juant3969 I disagree. There are many passionate people still slaving away at the modern glass towers on Millionaires Row. Same aspirations, same talent and same fortitude.
It is a shame that so many of these mansions were torn down. We are lucky to still have the grand homes in Newport, RI, along with Biltmore, and many mansions that are peppered throughout the country from this era.
Newport lost many mansions before the Newport preservation Society was formed to save them
It really is damn shame that developers demolished these grand mansion and build apartments in its place. They have zero appreciation for history, art and skill that’s no longer used anymore.
The maintenance of these house was financially prohibitive. The land use was also not realistic anymore as there is only some much land on the island.
@@millardfillmore241 Well if there's no space left, then I guess you can't stretch land to accommodate indefinitely.
It's inexcusable to destroy beauty with so much put into it, just to have space. There's enough space elsewhere. There can also be improvising, like building smaller spaces on property that doesn't have interesting architecture or appeal.
I think this is the reason I enjoy Europe. They value architecture. I agree with the Soviet Block comment...
The brief period time these magnificent homes were enjoyed, was a terrible slap in the face to those who toiled so hard to achieve such a high level of artistic splendor. The heart and soul of creative masters was poured into these mansions. The monetary compensation they received could never have been enough...their lasting beauty would have needed to be a part of the equation.
Crazy this building was only in use for 12 years. It was built in 1897 and torn down in 1909.
The rise and power of the Banker Cabal destroyed it.
I really love the design of the exterior on this one. So classy and well balanced, with the curved walls. Sad that they both died of cancer. At least some of his money went for research. I wonder if the college you mention became the Columbia School of Medicine.
I like the bow windows.
These old mansions were architectural works of art! The craftsmanship and detail that went into them is astounding. It's so sad that so many either lie in decay or are torn down to make way for comparatively sterile and boring buildings.
Oh my gosh soooo beautiful 😩 & how unfortunate to have generations of wealth wiped out by one ☝🏻 Will.
I feel for his living relatives.
It sounds like his relatives couldn’t care less about him, so why should he give them all his wealth?
I like the way you present the black and white photos of the interior and then color the images.
I love this channel but then I get all mad every time I watch cos I learn the house was torn down! Haha but seriously though. Love the channel!
Beautiful sunny day in STL for a great This House video😋
Same!! This makes our day, doesn't it, Christian?? Cheers!!
Damn, that's a crime to tear down a fabulous building like that!!!! The architecture was fan-freakin-tastic!!!! It looked like it was sturdy enough to last for generations!
What a gorgeous home!!! Thats really a pity that George didn't really leave his kids anything when he himself was born into money
What a fabulous mansion... However the backstory about his greedy children was even better! I can’t imagine that both your parents dying or cancer and they wanted the money meant to find a cure!
They were his wife's children not his.
All of the beauty, brilliance and opulence of this era, forever gone. Sad.
How amazing it would be to have so much money that you never had to worry about a thing for the rest of your life. I can only dream of being able to hire the top architects and designers of the world to create a gilded age mansion to my specifications. My house would be filled with all the things I traveled around the world collecting. There would be large plants and fresh flowers everywhere and my rooms would be stunning each one a different style of every design that I have come to love. Thanks for making these gilded age mansion stories and filling us in on the lives of those who lived in them. Sadly George had all that money but he couldn’t stop the cancer that took his wife. He also didn’t get to live a full life and died too young, im older than he was when he died. Money can buy a lot of things but good health is something all the money in the world can give you.
How sad, another opulent palace is torn down!! Thanks for sharing this interesting video!! 👍
Why do they tear down all of our history! Greed and ignorance
What an intriguing backstory! Great content as usual Ken.
Really enjoy how you brighten some of the photo’s. Well done, showing/informative of a time now gone.
I love how you give the info in a short interesting story. We would not know of this great mansions except for you research 🧐
The priceless furniture & the beauty of that alone. Just stunning!!!
How awful that they didn’t save this house!
Gorgeous house!
I’m an antiques dealer and all I can see is very valuable architectural doo-dads. The ironwork, the urns etc would be very valuable now.
How sad that this country tears down history like it doesn't matter. Why they don't keep and restore these homes baffles the mind. They can be used for tours, weddings, grand parties. Such a Shame.
What a BEAUTIFUL home!!! Sad it was torn down.
What a great story, I so enjoyed knowing all the sorted details!!!
It is heartbreaking to know that people just tear down absolute beautiful buildings and in turn build junk back in its place
Thanks 4 Sharing this History w/ Us...😊🙏🏾💖
Amazing home that absolutely was a treasure in the day. So sad that Emma and George didn't get to enjoy this home and there was such a legal battle over the estate. So sad that this home no longer exists.
I completely missed this one somehow. The algorithms finally brought it to my attention. lol Another sad ending to a beautiful piece of architecture.
You are doing great historical work by sharing these stories of mansions the population would otherwise be unaware of.
Thank you.
Gotta love that Gilded Age. Is anything left?
It apparently caused cancer.
The house wasn’t torn down for an apartment building but added to one. A very exemplary one!
I'm from Sacramento ca and the crockers are big here
When in Sacramento explore the Crocker Art Museum.
Soo sad they tore it down. Too bad they couldn't save it even if just to show! 😢🙏💔
Crocker's story has made it's way into many Hollywood films! Bratty kids or grandkids that erroneously believed they had paid it forward just to find out they had not! 😆😵😍
Rodney Dangerfield "Easy Money" he had to stay sober for a year to inherit his mother-in-law's money. That's a great movie.
Another interesting story.
Thank you.
That house is so beautiful 😭 I would time travel to save this house
The trouble with opulence is that as time goes by --taste change...and then there is the financial aspect of opulence..Very expensive to maintain..
Sad story, beautiful house. Regards
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Victorian of the era was so heavy, luscious in their individuality, select pieces would offer such value, had they a canvas less layered.
They obviously fed their desires in "Maximism" and were so highly influenced by Queen Victoria, *Imagine their first taste of the Prarie Style/Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Deco, and then the evolved Frank Lloyd Wright works that became the MidCentury Modern Influences like "Falling Water", etc.*
He absolutely recognized his own Genius, was Forthright in his Designs, and trumped the various Era Decor go-Tom's with his own Designs.
I still giggle when I think about his reference to his era Interior Decorators as *"Interior Desicrators"*
They didn't have the vision nor the possibilities his works laid the foundation for in the following eras.
He was aged of our time, nevermind his own.
Fabulous Presentation !
0:36 if you lack at the mansion on the left it is actually the one used Asa model for the Baudelaire Mansion on the The Series of Unfortunate Events movie
I'm almost starting to think after seeing so many Manhattan mansions taken down after only a single family living in them, that they may of intended of them coming down, they may of felt it was like taking it with them, and also maybe they didn't what to haunt the world and become a ghost story.
I never thought of it that way but somehow it makes me feel better.
@@jonathannauck7453 me too
Ken,
Again, great content.
"Sevres" is pronounced, "sev."
Sad to think of all that history gone.
DAYUUUM George was cold-blooded..
You have a great site.
Heartbreaking how many mansions have been torn down for ugly square apartment buildings. Such a shame!
Nice looking house exterior.
Oh yes. Modern. Man destroyed so much
The rich back then had style and class. Their mansions LOOKED like mansions. Equivalent houses today look more like public buildings. Lodges, or vacation structures.
That is a good reason to give up the drinking with the money being withheld unless he did. Nice story.
Awesome video my friend.
you should do the Wentworth Woodhouse estate its in England but makes any gilded age mansion look like a humble cottage its more 250000 sq feet! and sold for $9million usd and currently under restoration . Chhers From Salt Lake city
It makes me sad to think that these mansion homes were torn down to make apartment houses!!!!
Use to beautiful in the city..all gone now
Amazing story. Why did these people waste cash on big mansions and stuff?
To those wondering, the original address of the mansion was No. 1 East 64th Street, and the Rosario Candela apartment building that was built in its place in 1931 is 834 Fifth Avenue, widely regarded as one of the most prestigious apartment houses in New York City today.
Avi C. ..I couldn't help but notice "to those wondering "... to This House ...Nice research but WHAT'S the address ? I was just wondering.
It’s so sad they destroyed all these beautiful Estates to build dumb apartment buildings.
Have you seen the Carson Mansion in Eureka CA? Not sure is the humongous domicile still standing. I know there's a vid on utube of it. Last I knew the house belongs to a private club. Talk about magnificent woodwork n incredible decor. Your vids are rather curiously fascinating. It must have cost wads to heat and cool those other-world style homes.
Compare old money to today's money always look off to me ,there's no way you can build that mansion with less than 4 millions in the exact location
They paid 0.00 in taxes, no benefits to employees and worked them 7 days a week, exception Westinghouse.
They have value for the dollar, far more actual Journalist Reporting Facts, far less Ownership of the Tools, News Media and the "Federal Reserve Bank Corporation" (privately owned), did not exist, our currency was under the Treasury where it was intended.
There was a really short middle class and everyone had the advantage of "an expectation of privacy".
.... Until about 1913 forward
It was another world prior to Advertising and PR, became part of Journalism. What is now heavily used in "Commentary News" 24hr Cable News ... for profits.
(My areas of degree are 8n History, Journalism, Sociology)
Maybe I should have majored in Art, and been unaware. lol 😉
It can always get way better!
😘
All those Gilded Age houses look like Haunted House Cookie Jars...gaudy and crooked!! Something about the visual lines seem wrong??
You have some inaccuracies. At 0:34, this is Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and not III.
Also, in some other video, you said that the Triple palace was built by\for Cornelius Vanderbilt, and then in another video you (correctly) said it was built by William Vanderbilt (Cornelius' son).
I wonder what happened to those children who were given only $100 a piece. Actually, it is my understanding that they were from the first marriage of his wife. What did they end up doing with their lives, this roadkill?
It cost $3 million in todays money to build the house. There's no way you could build such a magnificent house like this foe $3 million today. That tells me that labour was real cheap, even Master builders. Today it would cost around $30 to $60 million to build. Unfurnished of course.
All of these videos end so sadly with them mostly being torn down. I'd love to see a video of what's still standing tbh.... Lol.
Very sad
Someone please assist with pronunciations
So funny about the greedy kids...
When you say that Crocker left money for research to "Columbia College," surely you are not referring to the Columbia College here in Columbia, Missouri?
He left it to the Columbia College in New York. I probably should have specified that given there are several Columbia Colleges sprinkled throughout the US.
@@ThisHouse Thank you, Ken, for the clarification. The little Columbia College here in CoMO hasn't achieved that level of recognition, to state my point as politely as I can. Anyway, I would have been quite content in the pink boudoir, with its own fireplace and couch. I am sorry I and others like yourself will never get to see the home's beauty in person.
Dang
As mansions go, it is not large.
Hummm... He and his wife died young from cancer. Makes me wonder about the materials used to construct the home.
Good luck trying to build that today for 3.5 million
What is the address?
Imagine having so much money that you could afford to tear down the previous millionaires mansion and build another mansion but bigger and more elaborate?
I wish Manhattan still had all these mansions still standing.The majority of them are all gone replaced with steel and glass.
Is he any relation to Betty crocker
One by one, these beautiful mansions were torn down, and yet they preserved the brownstones! I don't get it. I wonder why he chose to leave his children with nothing. Did they not have the proper work ethic and felt entitled to an inheritance they didn't work to maintain? He knew something that was unsaid, but we'll never know.
Hellen WHO?!
Modern day equivalent of 3 1/2 million dollars. Bargain. Modern day value would probably be 10 million at least.
It was then torn down and an UGLY apartment bldg. was put up in its place.
Leave it to the American Tutera down Beauty and Grandeur and replace it with an ugly cardboard box.
Please say andirons again.
These rich people sure like their pagan gods ,,, fascinating 🧐
You talking to fast for the story,people are reading as you go along online.He has to sober up without ,taking a drink of alcohol spirit.
No he is reading at conversation pace. Too many videos have audio that slows down to a 3rd grader tone slow. You can change the setting on youtube videos to adjust the speed if you are a slow reader.
BlahBLAH, all that house not one good RECLINER.
INDEED
These wonderful videos would be so much better had they not been narrated by what sounds like a 6th grade book report, read in front of the class.