Why did Gilded Age mansions lose their luster"
TL;DR: They were expensive?even for the super rich Welcome back to Period Dramas, a weekly column that alternates between rounding up historic homes on the market and answering questions we?ve always had about older structures.
Grand mansions are emblematic, if not entirely synonymous, with the Gilded Age.
And that?s no coincidence: The Astors, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, and Rockefellers?just to name a few?used their homes, whether in the country or city, to assert their social dominance, establish a legacy, and generate prestige.
Built largely between 1890 and 1915, the houses were often designed by popular architects of the time, most notably McKim, Mead, & White, Richard Morris Hunt, and Horace Trumbauer. As the years marched on, the homes ballooned in size?the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, for example, has 70 rooms?setting new standards for opulence by drawing from European palaces to inspire their dazzling interiors. But the halcyon days of the Gilded Age home didn?t last long. By the 1920s, many of the Fifth Avenue mansions of New York City were being torn down. In the 1940s, it was not uncommon to read about Newport mansions being auctioned off.
© Halcyon Days by Peggie Phipps and Richard Gachot 1986
Construction of the south facade of Old Westbury Gardens, ca. 1905.
Today, the vast majority of Gilded Age mansions aren?t being used as family homes, and very few are still owned by the original family. If they?ve survive...
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