The Lost Mansion of Henry Clay Frick (Eagle Rock)
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Join Ken on a riveting journey through time at Eagle Rock, the mansion that defied its owner's wishes. Discover the legacy of Henry Clay Frick, from his beginnings to becoming an industrial titan, and how his simple request for a modest cabin resulted in a lavish 104-room Neo-Georgian estate. Uncover the controversies, the Johnstown Flood, labor conflicts, and an assassination attempt that marked Frick's tumultuous life. Witness the transformation of Eagle Rock from a family's extravagant home to its surprising demise.
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I can’t imagine having so much money that I didn’t realise an architect spent enough of it to build a palace until I was sent a photo. Really?
The Johnstown flood has a place in my family history. My great grandfather and his young son rode out the flood on a door and managed to live thru it.
Wow!
That’s incredible!
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What a shame that a family member had it demolished. It would have been better to have gifted it to the state as a museum.
Its maintenance costs might have made such a gift unattractive.
True, and that most likely led to many glided mansions meeting their demise.
As stated in the video, when Eagle Rock was demolished, she had all of the artwork moved to the family's city residence in mid Manhattan, which was and IS today known as the Frick Collection, one of the finest art galleries in America.
The two ends left of the dam still exists and is a monument to wealth destroys. I was born and raised in Johnstown.
The Commonwealth has far too many house museums as it is.
Another great video. I've never heard of a better story of an architect and client miscommunicating about what was to be built. Maybe his wife was secretly communicating with the architects about what SHE wanted built, as it seems she really enjoyed it once it was built.
I suspected the same thing about Mrs. Frick’s influence. Mr. Frick , by this time, was probably amenable to “new directions” having probably been somewhat diminished by the tumultuous events, his age and the injuries suffered after the shooting in his office. Some of the starch had been taken out his stiff collar methinks.😊
An amazing and beautiful house, built on blood money in many ways! When I visited The Frick in NYC, I probably saw some of the art work from this house!
This is pretty big for a “Simple& Cozy “ summer retreat. A 105 room Mansion is HUGE. It’s gorgeous both interior & exterior . Beautiful craftsmanship inside .Even the B& W photos are beautiful . in colour I’m sure just exist. This is a March Mansion Madness House I would choose. Love this Ken . Hope you’re doing better!! Laura from Canada❤🇨🇦👍🏻💯🌺
Frick and his club, didn’t just fail to maintain the Johnstown dam. They ordered the dam widened to make a road on top, so their cars could use the dam for a shortcut to the lakeside clubhouse. They did so simply by chopping the dam’s top off, weakening it, and leading to the flood disaster.
BTW, I love that the architect managed to trick Frick out of some of his ill-gotten gains.
Frick was a rather nasty business man but seemed to be a good family man. His daughter Helen was lovely and did much for the community and the arts.
It always amazes me the amount of rooms and scale of these homes
I find the interiors of Eagle Rock to be the overall best in the mansions we've seen. I noticed that the stairway decorations by the pipe organ had a musical, harp-like feature in the metal work.
Damn the NY Public Library!! According to books on the homes of Frick, this was going to be his museum. That is until the various private libraries in NYC were combined into the NYPL giving Frick the opportunity to purchase the Lenox Library where he would later build his NYC mansion. It became his museum instead. Excellent video.
Frick in Manhattan is a must see.
The Frick Collection is probably my favorite place in New York.
That home video in the gardens is so cool to see!
Once again you nailed it. Thanks for all the effort you put into your videos.
It just SCREAMS "GOOD TASTE!"
Really interesting story. Thank you. Hope you are all healed up and doing well. Now I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your videos.
Great video…. thanks Ken!
Helen was a great woman, except for tearing down the building.
High Class elite people?! We meet at the club again! Our host, Ken, has done it again!
Im simply amazed! Where do you get all your source material?!? Everytime!! Thanks,Ken, for doing the research for us! We get to sit back and enjoy all the pretty stuff!! Nice!!!! Nevermind the egotistical and nasty people that owned these places. I never tire of that tragic human side. Artistically, however, your videos highlight the craftsmen's skills!! Nice work!!
I love it when I find a new episode. Thank you Ken 🙏
Have you toured the Frick House in Pittsburgh, PA? It might be a good topic for you.
I'm from the area, the mansion is called Clayton.... it's a throwback to another time, if going to tour they also have a Carriage house on the premise, fantastic to see all the vehicles from the turn of the century. Hard to believe such opulence existed at that time.... and the Homestead incident is legendary here.
The main staircase was stunning!
Such wonderful historical factual stories. You really amaze me with your knowledge about so many different homes and estates, their owners and families, plus businesses. You are like a ‘social’ encyclopedia!
Very interesting and informative article 😊😊
Tear down parts of a mansion to lesen the tax burden. I think I need a drink, a strong one.
Henry Frick is in the top 5 all time Most capable businessmen of American history. He is absolutely off the charts in his skills. And boy, he was one hell of a great art collector. Some of the finest stuff of europe is now in his museum in new york. What is nice about the museum? Is that it was his mansion? So you walk in there and you are in a Golded Age mansion, although today this beauty serves as a museum. It was built when men were men and money was money.
Your accident? I do hope it wasn't too serious and that you're now fully recovered. With best wishes from the UK.
Beautiful grand “cabin”😂😂 Else tea are so out of touch with the heart of God !!!! Their clubs and corporations have taken the best for themselves and looked so benevolent doing so!!!! Art and architecture are so a part of a creator’s mind ….at least we can appreciates the beauty a bit ….on our journey to where all will be perfect for all who get there!!
Thank you for this video...............very interesting.
Demolish it to avoid taxes? Did she even ask for anyones input? Sell the place, create museum, subdivide for the beloved common man? So many options. This place was a well crafted work of art. What a selfish decision.
People who inherit great wealth aren't good at being critiqued about their decision making.
She did however establish the Frick Art Reference Library in NYC.
Very interesting piece, Ken. I'd like to comment on an observation, but when I did recently I was attacked by some of your -- I'm guessing younger -- viewers that never learned history.
You shouldn’t let that stop you from commenting
@@FirstLast-dy4gt I agree- everyone is entitled to their own opinion and comments. If someone doesn`t like it or agree with it, well, too bad for them. And if they don`t like what happened in history, they can`t change it so deal with it.
I don’t remember seeing anything but good comments from you over the years. Please, feel free to speak your mind.
@@ThisHouse I love your videos!
I liked the dining room.
Their main house was actually very modest, no wonder he went ballistic when he saw this
The one thing I don’t care for about this channel is the history that has more to do with the owner of the house, and less about the house itself.
Travesty it was torn down
The house is gone, but its ponderous fence, scaled for deterring assassins, still marks the property.
The entire place is so grand it looks like a college or museum.
Interesting
Yeah...I would want this estate.
A marvellous house . He was a man of high taste and refinement. He bought gorgeous objects from the Duke of Devonshire which are still to be seen in the wonderful Frick museum in New York
Much like the house I grew up in, except our house was larger.
Wow. Fancy demolishing such a gem to avoid paying tax. Just wow.
"You better keep a eye on your contractor. . . 😊
A simple 104 room cabin.
If I had all the money that people wasted I would have enough to make everyone in America rich 👍
Or help the more unfortunate in some way!
It’s really sad that his one daughter had it tore down but if she was sold at somebody with tore down and built something else there, so I guess it was the same outcome
Eagle Rock looks like a bunch of architects and interior designers got slightly drunk and threw the budget and constraints out the window until the client said "wait a minute...." A mish mosh of any and all styles crammed into each other. I would have been angry if my resources had been so recklessly abused. Woof
Lol. He wanted something simple! Oh well. At least his family got to enjoy it.
Where was 'Eagle Rock'?
Beautiful if you can afford taxes and up keep. Too big for me. More like a palace,
Sounds like this guy should have been in jail not a mansion
It’s hard to understand how someone who was so astute business-wise, was so careless with the building of his home. One would have thought that they’d would have had to have drawing made & approved before building. Perhaps he was too trusting of his associates who may have had control over the construction? Nevertheless, had I been Frick and I first saw the home, we’d have had a come to Jesus meeting and perhaps added Frick to the name of the architecture firm. I apologize for sounding like a blow hard, but that was insane. All he wanted was something simple & I assume unpretentious. What part of simple did they not understand?
So, he sez, maybe he originally had wanted a simple building but.... oh well, if you have it why not flaunt it! remember he was dealing with the big boys of the era, Carnegie, The Rockefellers, Du Ponts and the like!
Evil man
He did not keep track of his architects, so they made a fortune at his expense, and his heirs were not pleased much with it either. Beautiful house and grounds, but the wrong family. Daughter could have sold it for the cash to spend on her charities, but she didn 't value it even that much.
Hmm I'm guessing the architects cared for Frick as much as he cared for this house. Going off on a tangent, reminds me of people whose hairdressers clearly don't like them. 😅
These men had no empathy.
Narcissism at its best!!
Would have been funny if he had a fracking company.
So, Frick was kind of a d___.
But,I didn’t know about your accident. I am sorry and hope you are well.
"The tax burden was too great" something to think about.
As always I enjoy your videos. until the dreaded use of the word DEMOLISHED. lol Thank you very much for your efforts.
Neither Frick or any of the other wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting club could be sued by survivors of the flood. One is the great injustices of US history.
Johnstown, Shanksville(Flight 93), and Gettysburg lay within 120 miles of each other in south central Pennsylvania. Three of the more tragic and momentous days in US history. A triangle of tragedy.
The state of PA had built the dam. The state of PA has removed the iron tube to control flood waters.
The club merely flattened the top 2 feet to allow carriages and inspection rounds. They did not build it.
Sounds like Helen was cut from the same cloth as Berkman and Emma Goldman, union slugs…….
Why demolish such a splendid home? Donate it to a school or something. All that handcrafted art work gone!
He was not a nice man!!
Muddied over....no pun 😂😂😂😂
Another over built house, beautiful but unsustainable by maintenance or staffing. A shame to destroy what was already doomed to failure.
That house was humongous and to think of all the money it took to build it, then tear it down like it was just a drop in the bucket. Oh the idol rich! And covering up the lack of dam maintenance to escape blame, sounds like a Trump thing to do!
Although I can vaguely appreciate the architecture (?) , its nonetheless a HORRIBLE house !🤢🤢🤢
well,it's a lot too much for me. enjoy the art work in nyc. these rich dudes could have done better.....hurrah for the daughter....?
Yes...the daughter Helen was very unconventional especially for the times, she was a great philanthropist and art collector living well into her 90ties I believe and never married!.
I stayed here when I was younger
Every historical account on this person was pretty clear that he was a good business man ....... and a complete garbage human being.
Figures....there's always corruption!