List of Gilded Age mansions facts for kids
The so-called Gilded Age mansions were built in the United States by some of the richest people in the country during the period between 1870 and the early 1900s.
Raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes coinciding with an era of expansion of the tobacco, railroads, steel and fossil fuels industries, economic, technical and scientific progress, and a complete lack of personal income tax. This made possible the very rich to build true "palaces" in some cases, designed by prominent architects of its day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, collectibles and works of art, many imported from Europe.
This small group of nouveau riche, entrepreneur citizens of a relatively young country found context and meaning for their lives and good fortune by thinking of themselves as heirs of a great Western Tradition. They traced their cultural lineage from the Greeks, through the Roman Empire, to the European Renaissance. America's upper classes and merchant classes traveled the world visiting the great European cities and the ancient sites of the Mediterranean, as part of a Grand Tour, collecting and honoring their western cultural heritage. In their travels abroad they also admired the estates of the European nobility and seeing themselves as the American "nobility", they wished to emulate the old world dwellings in American soil.
All these houses are "temples" of social ritual of 19th-century high society, they are the result of the particularization of space, in that a sequence of rooms are separated and intended for a specific sort of activity, such as dining room for gala dinners, ballroom, library, etc.
These elaborate bastions of wealth and power played a social role, made for impressing, entertaining and receiving guests. Relatively few in number and geographically dispersed, the majority were constructed in a variety of European architectural and decorative styles from different times and countries, such as France, England or Italy.
In cinema, the Gilded Age society and mansions are accurately portrayed in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), which was itself based on Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name.
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California
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Leland Stanford Mansion | 1857 | Second Empire | Seth Babson | Sacramento | Owned by the government of California | |
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Ralston Hall | 1864 | Victorian-Italianate Villa | Henry Cleaveland | Belmont | Located on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University | |
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McDonald Mansion (also known as Mableton) |
1877 | Stick/Eastlake | Santa Rosa | The exterior was used in the filming of Walt Disney's Pollyanna | ||
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Mark Hopkins Mansion | 1878 | Gothic | Wright & Sanders | San Francisco | Destroyed by fire following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | |
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Charles Crocker Mansion | 1880s | Second Empire and Neo-classical | S. C. Bugbee & Son and Curlett & Cuthbertson | San Francisco | Destroyed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | |
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Winchester House | 1884 | Queen Anne Style Victorian | Sarah Winchester | San Jose | Winchester did not use an architect and added on to the building in a haphazard fashion | |
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Carson Mansion | 1886 | Queen Anne | Samuel Newsom and Joseph Cather Newsom | Eureka | "Considered the most grand Victorian home in America." | |
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James C. Flood Mansion | 1886 | Neo-classical | Augustus Laver; Willis Polk | San Francisco | Today, home of the Pacific-Union Club | |
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Huntington Residence | 1909 | Mediterranean Revival | Myron Hunt | San Marino | Former residence of Henry E. Huntington, now an art gallery. | |
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Hearst Castle | 1919 | Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean Revival | Julia Morgan | San Simeon | Built by William Randolph Hearst | |
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Filoli | 1915 | Georgian Revival | Willis Polk | Woodside | Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public | |
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Carolands | 1916 | Beaux-Arts Classicism | Ernest Sanson | Hillsborough | Owned by the Carolands Foundation and open to the public |
Colorado
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Richthofen Castle | 1887 | Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival | Alexander Cazin Maurice Biscoe and Henry Hewitt (1910 renovation) Jacques Benedict (1924 renovation) |
Montclair, Denver | Built for Baron Walter von Richthofen |
Connecticut
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Lauder Greenway Estate | 1894 | French Renaissance | Greenwich | For a time, it was the most expensive home in United States history |
Delaware
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Nemours | 1909 | French Neoclassical | Carrère and Hastings | Wilmington | Owned by the Nemours Foundation |
Florida
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Whitehall | 1902 | Beaux Arts | Pottier & Stymus, Carrère and Hastings | Palm Beach | Open to the public for tours | |
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The Casements | 1910 | Shingle Style | Ormond Beach | Owned by the city of Ormond Beach and used as a cultural center and park | ||
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Villa Vizcaya | 1914 | Mediterranean Revival and Baroque | F. Burrall Hoffman Paul Chalfin (designer) Diego Suarez (landscape) |
Miami | Houses the Miami Dade Art Museum |
Georgia
- Millionaires Row, Jekyll Island Club Historic District, 1888
Illinois
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Nickerson House | 1883 | Late Victorian | Burling & Whitehouse | Chicago | Home to the Richard H. Driehaus Museum | |
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Palmer Mansion | 1885 | Early Romanesque, Norman Gothic | Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost | Chicago | Demolished in 1950 |
Massachusetts
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Searles Castle | 1888 | Renaissance Revival Châteauesque | McKim, Mead & White | Great Barrington | Home to the John Dewey Academy | |
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Ventfort Hall | 1893 | Jacobean Revival | Rotch & Tilden | Lenox | Operated as a house and Gilded Age museum | |
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Shadow Brook Farm | 1893 | Tudor Revival | H. Neill Wilson | Stockbridge | Burned down in 1956 | |
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The Mount | 1902 | Georgian Revival | Ogden Codman, Jr. and Francis L.V. Hoppin Beatrix Farrand (landscape) |
Lenox | Home of Edith Wharton; open to the public | |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner House | 1902 | Renaissance Revival | Willard T. Sears | Boston | Houses the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | |
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Bellefontaine Mansion | 1912 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | Lenox | Today, the Lenox location of Canyon Ranch |
Minnesota
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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James J. Hill House | 1891 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Peabody and Stearns | Saint Paul | Operated by the Minnesota Historical Society | |
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Glensheen Mansion | 1908 | Jacobean Revival | Clarence H. Johnston Sr. Charles W. Leavitt, Jr. | Duluth | Operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth as a historic house museum | |
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Southways Estate | 1918 | Georgian and Tudor Revival | Harrie T. Lindeberg | Orono, Lake Minnetonka | Built for John S. Pillsbury; demolished in 2018 |
Missouri
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Campbell House Museum | 1851 | Early Victorian, Greek Revival | St. Louis | A historic house museum |
Montana
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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W. A. Clark Mansion | 1884 | Romanesque Revival Victorian | C. H. Brown | Butte | Today, a bed and breakfast |
New Jersey
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Florham | 1893 | English Baroque Revival | McKim, Mead & White Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape) |
Madison and Florham Park | Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University | |
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Georgian Court | 1899 | Georgian Revival | Bruce Price | Lakewood | Today, part of Georgian Court University | |
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Rutherfurd Hall | 1902 | Tudor Revival | Whitney Warren Olmsted Brothers (landscape) |
Allamuchy Township | Owned and managed by the Allamuchy School District | |
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Blairsden | 1903 | French Renaissance | Carrère and Hastings | Peapack-Gladstone | Formerly a retreat house for the Sisters of St. John the Baptist |
New York
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Beechwood | 1780 (renovated 1890s) | Neo-classical Federal, Colonial Revival (renovation) | R. H. Robertson (1890s renovation) William Welles Bosworth (c. 1907 renovation) |
Briarcliff Manor | Converted to condominium apartments in the 1980s | |
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Clermont | 1782 (renovated 1890s) | Georgian, Colonial Revival | Tivoli | Renovated by John Henry Livingston in the 1890s and 1910s. Mott B. Schmidt was consulted in the 1930s but the work was not completed. | ||
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Mills Mansion | 1832 (renovated c. 1895) | Colonial (1792 original) Greek Revival (1832 replacement) Beaux-Arts (1895 renovation) |
McKim, Mead, and White (1890s renovation) | Staatsburg | Today, located within Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park | |
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Lyndhurst | 1838 | Gothic Revival | Alexander Jackson Davis | Tarrytown | Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and open to the public | |
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Wilderstein | 1852 | Italianate (original) Queen Anne (1888 renovation) |
John Warren Ritch, Arnout Cannon, Joseph Burr Tiffany, Calvert Vaux (landscape) | Rhinebeck | Today, operated as a house museum | |
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Olana | 1872 | Eclectic | Calvert Vaux | Greenport | Home to Frederic Edwin Church | |
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Glenview | 1877 | Late Victorian | Charles W. Clinton | Yonkers | Today, houses the Hudson River Museum | |
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Castle Rock | 1881 | Romanesque Revival | J. Morgan Slade | Garrison | Private residence | |
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Idle Hour | 1882 | Tudor Revival | Richard Morris Hunt | Oakdale | Burned down in 1899 | |
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Rockwood Hall | 1886 | Elizabethan | Gervase Wheeler (1849 house) Ebenezer L. Roberts and Carrère and Hastings (c. 1890 renovation) |
Mount Pleasant | It was the second-largest house in the U.S.; Demolished c. 1941 | |
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Estherwood | 1894 | Renaissance Revival | Buchman & Deisler | Dobbs Ferry | Today, located on the campus of The Masters School | |
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Woodlea | 1895 | Renaissance Revival and Beaux-Arts | McKim, Mead & White | Briarcliff Manor | Today, the Sleepy Hollow Country Club | |
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Alexander Brown House | 1895 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Gordon Wright | Syracuse | ||
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Brookholt | 1897 | Colonial Revival | John Russell Pope | East Meadow | Destroyed by fire in 1934 | |
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Indian Neck Hall | 1897 | Georgian | Ernest Flagg | Oakdale | Part of the Long Island campus of St. John's University | |
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Henry W. Poor House (also known as Poor's Palace and Woodland) | 1899 | Jacobean | T. Henry Randall | Tuxedo Park | Later owned by Henry Morgan Tilford | |
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Hyde Park | 1899 | Beaux-Arts | McKim, Mead & White | Hyde Park | Owned and operated by the National Park Service | |
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Idle Hour | 1901 | English Country | Richard Howland Hunt | Oakdale | Formerly part of Dowling College | |
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Waldheim | 1901 | Tudor Revival | Olmstead Brothers (grounds) | Scarborough-on-Hudson | Sold in 1946, subdivided into residential lots, and torn down in 1955 | |
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Harbor Hill | 1902 | French Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | Roslyn | Demolished in 1947 | |
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Harry E. Donnell House | 1902 | Tudor Revival | Harry E. Donnell; Randall & Miller | Eatons Neck | ||
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Laurelton Hall | 1905 | Art Nouveau | Louis Comfort Tiffany | Laurel Hollow | Burned down in 1957 | |
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Westbury House | 1906 | Carolean Revival | George A. Crawley | Old Westbury | A house museum open for tours | |
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Arden | 1909 | Carrère and Hastings | Harriman | Owned by the Research Center on Natural Conservation | ||
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Hempstead House (also known as Castle Gould) | 1912 | Gothic Revival | August Allen | Sands Point | Started by Howard Gould and completed by Daniel Guggenheim | |
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Kykuit | 1913 | Colonial Revival | Delano & Aldrich William Welles Bosworth (renovation) |
Pocantico Hills | Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation | |
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DuPont-Guest Estate (also known as White Eagle) | 1916 | Georgian Revival | Carrère and Hastings | Brookville | Since 1972, it has been part of the Old Westbury campus of the New York Institute of Technology | |
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Beacon Towers | 1918 | Gothic Châteauesque | Hunt & Hunt | Sands Point | Demolished in 1945 | |
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Oheka Castle | 1919 | Châteauesque | Delano & Aldrich Olmsted Brothers (landscape) |
West Hills | A member of Historic Hotels of America | |
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Inisfada | 1920 | Tudor Revival | John T. Windrim | North Hills | Demolished in December 2013 | |
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Lillian Sefton Dodge Estate (also known as Sefton Manor and Mill Neck Manor) | 1922 | Tudor Revival | Clinton and Russell | Mill Neck | Today, the Mill Neck Manor Lutheran School for the Deaf | |
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Poplar Hill | 1925 | French Renaissance | Charles A. Platt | Glen Cove | Today, a rehabilitation center |
New York City
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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William H. Vanderbilt House | 1878 | Renaissance Revival | Richard Morris Hunt | New York City | Demolished in 1945 | |
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Villard Houses | 1882 | Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | New York City | Today is part of the New York Palace Hotel | |
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Petit Chateau | 1882 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt | New York City | Demolished in 1927 | |
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Cornelius Vanderbilt II House | 1883 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt George B. Post | New York City | Demolished in 1926 | |
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Florence and Eliza Vanderbilt House | 1883 | Châteauesque | John B. Snook | New York City | 680 and 684 Fifth Avenue demolished in 1917 and 1925 respectively | |
Isaac Vail Brokaw House | 1883 | Châteauesque | Rose and Stone | New York City | Demolished in 1965 | ||
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James Bailey House | 1888 | Romanesque Revival | Samuel B. Reed | New York City | Built for James Anthony Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey Circus | |
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James Hampden Robb and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb House | 1892 | Italian Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | New York City | Today, a cooperative apartment | |
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Henry T. Sloane House | 1894 | French Renaissance Revival | Carrère and Hastings | New York City | Owned by Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar | |
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Mrs. William B. Astor House | 1896 | French Renaissance Revival | Richard Morris Hunt | New York City | Demolished around 1926 | |
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Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House | 1898 | French Renaissance Revival | Kimball & Thompson | New York City | Today is the Ralph Lauren flagship store | |
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William H. Moore House | 1898 | Renaissance Revival | McKim, Mead & White | New York City | Formerly the America-Israel Cultural Foundation | |
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Oliver Gould Jennings House | 1898 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | New York City | Owned by Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar | |
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Harry F. Sinclair House | 1898 | French Gothic | C. P. H. Gilbert | New York City | Since 1955, it has been owned by the Ukrainian Institute of America | |
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Stuyvesant Fish House | 1898 | Italianate | McKim, Mead and White | New York City | Today, headquarters of Bloomberg Philanthropies | |
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Benjamin N. Duke House | 1901 | Beaux-Arts | Welch, Smith & Provot | New York City | Owned by Carlos Slim | |
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Andrew Carnegie Mansion | 1901 | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival | Babb, Cook & Willard | New York City | Today, houses the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum | |
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Joseph Raphael De Lamar House | 1902 | C. P. H. Gilbert | Beaux-Arts | New York City | Purchased by the Republic of Poland in 1973 to house its Consulate General | |
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James A. Burden House | 1905 | Italian Renaissance | Warren & Wetmore | New York City | Today, it houses the lower school of the Convent of the Sacred Heart | |
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Morton F. Plant House | 1905 | Neo-Renaissance | Robert W. Gibson Thierry W. Despont (renovations) |
New York City | Today, a Cartier store | |
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Felix M. Warburg House | 1906 | Châteauesque | C. P. H. Gilbert | New York City | Today, home to the Jewish Museum | |
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Charles M. Schwab House | 1906 | Beaux-Arts | Maurice Hébert | New York City | Demolished in 1947 | |
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George J. Gould House | 1906 | French | Horace Trumbauer | New York City | Replaced by an office building in 1963 | |
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Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House | 1909 | Neoclassical | Hunt & Hunt | New York City | Demolished in 1951 | |
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William A. Clark House | 1911 | Beaux-Arts Châteauesque | Austin W. Lord, J. Monroe Hewlett, Washington Hull | New York City | Demolished in 1927 | |
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Henry Clay Frick House | 1914 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | New York City | Today, home to the Frick Collection | |
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Willard D. Straight House | 1915 | Georgian Revival | Delano & Aldrich | New York City | Today, private residence of Bruce Kovner | |
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Otto H. Kahn House | 1918 | Italian Renaissance | J. Armstrong Stenhouse, C. P. H. Gilbert | New York City | Modeled after the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome |
North Carolina
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Biltmore | 1895 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape) |
Asheville | Built for George Washington Vanderbilt II, it is the largest house in the U.S. |
South Carolina
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Calhoun Mansion | 1876 | Italianate | George W. Williams | Charleston | Open for public tours |
Ohio
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Taft House | 1820 | Greek Revival Federal | James Hoban (disputed) Alfred Oscar Elzner (additions) |
Cincinnati | Today houses the Taft Museum of Art | |
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Scarlet Oaks | 1867 | Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival | James Keys Wilson | Cincinnati | Currently, a retirement home affiliated with the Deaconess Hospital | |
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George B. Cox House | 1894 | Italianate | Samuel Hannaford | Cincinnati | Currently, a branch of the Public Library of Cincinnati | |
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Old Governor's Mansion | 1904 | Colonial Revival, Neo-Georgian eclectic | Frank Packard | Columbus | Today, home to the Columbus Foundation | |
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Laurel Court | 1907 | Beaux Arts, Renaissance | James Gamble Rogers | Cincinnati | A private residence available for tours by reservation | |
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Stan Hywet Hall | 1915 | Tudor Revival | Schneider, Charles S.; Manning, Warren H. | Akron | Built by Frank Seiberling | |
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Pinecroft | 1928 | Tudor Revival | Dwight James Baum | Cincinnati | Built for Powel Crosley, Jr. |
Pennsylvania
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Clayton | 1860s (renovated 1892) | Italianate | Andrew Peebles (renovations) Frederick J. Osterling (renovations) |
Pittsburgh | Part of the The Frick Pittsburgh | |
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Negley–Gwinner–Harter House | 1871 | Second Empire | Frederick J. Osterling (renovations) | Pittsburgh | ||
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Baywood Mansion | 1880 | Second Empire | Pittsburgh | |||
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Schwab-Dixon Mansion | 1888 | Richardsonian Romanesque | Frederick J. Osterling | North Braddock | Built for Charles M. Schwab | |
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Cairnwood | 1895 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | Bryn Athyn | Owned by the Academy of the New Church | |
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Grey Towers | 1896 | Gothic Revival | Horace Trumbauer | Glenside | Today, part of Arcadia University | |
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Elstowe Manor | 1898 | Italian Renaissance | Horace Trumbauer | Elkins Park | ||
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Lynnewood Hall | 1900 | Neoclassical Revival | Horace Trumbauer | Elkins Park | Predominantly vacant since 1952 | |
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McCook Mansion | 1906 | Jacobean Revival | Carpenter & Crocker | Pittsburgh | A boutique hotel and member of Historic Hotels of America | |
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Melmar | 1910 | Classical Revival | Huntingdon Valley | Built for Nicholas Biddle and Sarah Lippincott | ||
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Moreland-Hoffstot House | 1914 | French Renaissance Revival | Irwin, Paul | Pittsburgh | ||
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Whitemarsh Hall | 1921 (demolished 1980) | Georgian | Horace Trumbauer | Wyndmoor |
Rhode Island
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Kingscote | 1839 (remodeled 1870s, remodeled 1880s) | Gothic Revival | Richard Upjohn George C. Mason (1870s renovation) McKim, Mead and White (1880s renovation) |
Newport | One of the first summer "cottages" constructed in Newport; owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County and open for tours | |
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Malbone Castle | 1849 (remodeled 1875) | Gothic Revival | Alexander Jackson Davis Dudley Newton (renovations} |
Newport | A private residence not open to the public | |
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Beechwood | 1851 (remodeled 1880s, remodeled c. 2014) | Italianate | Downing and Vaux (construction) Richard Morris Hunt (renovations) McKim, Mead & White (renovations) |
Newport | Owned by Larry Ellison who is creating the "Beechwood Art Museum" | |
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Chateau-sur-Mer | 1852 (remodeled 1870s) | STYLE | Seth C. Bradford (construction) Richard Morris Hunt (renovations) Ogden Codman, Jr. (design) |
Newport | ||
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Fairholme | 1875 (remodeled 1905) | Tudor | Frank Furness | Newport | Privately owned | |
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William Watts Sherman House | 1875 | Queen Anne | H. H. Richardson Stanford White (c. 1880 renovations) |
Newport | Owned by Salve Regina University | |
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Charles H. Baldwin House | 1877 | Queen Anne Shingle | Potter & Robinson | Newport | Built for U.S. Navy Admiral Charles H. Baldwin | |
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The Breakers | 1878 | Queen Anne | Peabody and Stearns | Newport | Destroyed by fire in 1892 and replaced by The Breakers | |
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Vinland Estate | 1882 | Romanesque Revival | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Today, McAuley Hall, Salve Regina University | |
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Seaview Terrace | 1885 (remodeled c. 1923) | Châteauesque | Howard Greenley | Newport | Privately owned and is not open for tours | |
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William G. Low House | 1887 | Shingle | McKim, Mead & White | Bristol | Demolished in 1962 | |
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Hammersmith Farm | 1887 | Victorian Shingle | R. H. Robertson Olmsted Brothers (landscape) |
Newport | Built for John W. Auchincloss, uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss (Jacqueline Kennedy's stepfather) | |
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Rockhurst (also known as Aspen Hall) | 1891 | Châteauesque | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Demolished in 1955 for a residential subdivision | |
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Ochre Court | 1892 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt | Newport | Owned by Salve Regina University | |
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Marble House | 1892 | Beaux-Arts | Richard Morris Hunt | Newport | Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County | |
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Rough Point | 1892 | English Manorial | Peabody & Stearns | Newport | Built for Frederick William Vanderbilt; Owned and operated by the Newport Restoration Foundation | |
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Belcourt | 1894 | Châteauesque | Richard Morris Hunt (1894) John Russell Pope (1910) |
Newport | ||
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The Breakers | 1895 | Neo Italian Renaissance | Richard Morris Hunt | Newport | Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, replaced the 1878 Breakers mansion (owned by Pierre Lorillard IV) | |
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Crossways | 1895 | Colonial Revival | Dudley Newton | Newport | ||
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Vernon Court | 1901 | French classical | Carrère and Hastings | Newport | Today, home of the National Museum of American Illustration. | |
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The Elms | 1901 | Classical Revival | Horace Trumbauer | Newport | Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County | |
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Rosecliff | 1902 | French Baroque Revival | McKim, Mead & White | Newport | Open to the public and run by the Preservation Society of Newport County | |
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Miramar | 1915 | French neoclassical | Horace Trumbauer | Newport | Gardens designed by landscape architect Jacques Gréber | |
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Bois Doré | 1927 | French Château | Charles A. Platt | Newport | Later owned by heiress Carolyn Mary Skelly |
Virginia
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Ellerslie | 1856 (extensively remodeled in 1910) | Italian Villa | Robert Young (1857) Carneal and Johnston (1910) |
Colonial Heights | ||
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Roseland Manor (also known as the Strawberry Banks Manor House) |
1887 (burned 1985) |
Châteauesque Queen Anne | Arthur Crooks | Hampton | Destroyed by fire in 1985 | |
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Maymont | 1893 | Victorian | Edgerton S. Rogers | Richmond | Today, a historic house museum and arboretum | |
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Poplar Hill (also known as the Dunnington Mansion) |
1897 | Victorian | Farmville | 8,500 sq. ft. Manor home of tobacco baron Walter Grey Dunnington that has fallen into disrepair | ||
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Berryman Mansion | 1900 | Colonial Revival | Smithfield | Built by P.D. Gwaltney as a wedding gift for his daughter who married F.R. Berryman. | ||
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P. D. Gwaltney Jr. House | 1901 | Queen Anne | Smithfield | Remained in the Gwaltney family until 2016. | ||
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Cedar Hall | 1906 (demolished 1976) |
Queen Anne | Vance & Allen | Hampton | Demolished in 1976. | |
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Swannaoa | 1912 | Italian Renaissance Revival | Baskerville & Noland | Nelson County | ||
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Branch House | 1916 | Tudor Revival, Jacobean Revival | John Russell Pope with Otto R. Eggers |
Richmond | Offices of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) and the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design. | |
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Westbourne | 1919 | Georgian Revival | W. Duncan Lee | Richmond | Gardens designed by landscape architect Charles F. Gillette | |
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Merrywood | 1919 | Georgian Revival | McLean | Childhood home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Gardens designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand |
Washington, DC
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Christian Heurich Mansion | 1892 | Late Victorian | Meyers, John Granville | Washington, DC | Formerly housed the Historical Society of Washington | |
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Townsend House | 1901 | Beaux-Arts | Carrère and Hastings | Washington, DC | Home to the Cosmos Club since 1952 | |
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Walsh-McLean House | 1903 | Washington, DC | Today the Embassy of Indonesia | |||
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Anderson House | 1905 | Beaux-Arts | Little & Browne | Washington, DC | Today, it houses the Society of the Cincinnati's headquarters | |
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Perry Belmont House | 1909 | Beaux-Arts | Ernest-Paul Sanson | Washington, DC | Headquarters of the General Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star | |
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Edward Hamlin Everett House | 1915 | Beaux-Arts | George Oakley Totten Jr. | Washington, DC | Formerly the Turkish embassy, today the ambassador's residence |
Wisconsin
Image | Name | Year built (*circa) |
Style | Architect | City | Notes | Refs |
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Pabst Mansion | 1892 | Flemish Renaissance Revival | George Ferry | Milwaukee | Today, a historic house museum | |
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Holway Mansion | 1892 | Romanesque and Queen Anne | Hugo Schick and Gustav Stolze | La Crosse | Today, a bed and breakfast |
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Mansiones de la Gilded Age para niños