Gilded mansion

Lynnewood Hall, located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, is a Gilded Age mansion built between 1897 and 1900 for industrialist Peter A.B. Widener. Designed by renowned architect Horace Trumbauer, this 110-room Neoclassical Revival estate is one of the largest surviving Gilded Age mansions in the United States. Widener, a prominent figure in American business and an investor in the Titanic, used Lynnewood Hall to house his extensive art collection. Despite changing ownership and periods of…

Next time you’re in one of the city’s former Gilded Age mansions—reborn as a museum, perhaps, or a cultural center, store, or some other public building—be on the lookout for tiny butto…

Once in RI, we took the Claiborne Pell/Newport Bridge into Newport. The bridge was rather steep, allowing for views overlooking the harbor. This made for a grand entrance as we drove into Newport proper. We wanted to tour The Breakers, the Gilded Age Vanderbilt mansion along Easton Bay.

The Morgan Library and Museum in New York City during my December 2023 visit. Founded in 1906 by J.P. Morgan and opened to the public in 1924

The wealthiest families of the Gilded Age lived in enormous mansions outfitted with gold, marble, and priceless art. Take a look inside.

Of all the historic homes for sale we have shared on this channel, this may be the most magnificent. There is no DIY or renovation to be done here, this one...

The Gilded Age architecture of Stanford White, Richard Morris Hunt, and more can be seen on the new HBO drama about the period

NEWPORT, R.I. - Château-sur-Mer, though smaller than its Bellevue Avenue neighbors, was Newport’s first Nineteenth Century mansion. Before its construction, Newport was known for understated wooden cottages, appropriate for a New England seaside retreat.