The Lost Gilded Age Mansions of New York (Documentary)

None of these "homes" were sustainable. To live in them required you to keep.pumping out more and more money. That sounds like a stressful life. And at the end of the day all their effort to be the biggest and the best was all for naught and most of these people ended up with little money or social standing

The Schwab house / co-op looks like it belongs in a ghetto

Very interesting indeed 😊 really enjoyed this video thx for sharing... smiles

My favorite thing about these old magnificent buildings is how the builders thought to make the "first floor" half underground. Its amazing how the windows are basically half buried in all these old structures. Not to mention on a slope! So instead of building on level ground, they built the structures on a slope and half underground....just amazing!! All this with horse and buggy, no quarries in site, no back hoe, no power tools, nothing but grit. Quick, shut down critical thinking skills...now. Power down.

just remember all that gilded age was THEFT from the workers

Pretty sure I saw the music room which is in the Breakers mansion of Newport Rhode Island in this video

Here in the UK, and in Europe, historical buildings are kept, if at all possible and preserved for future generations to see and understand history, admire and learn from such buildings in a by gone time and eras, I find that the US had many such beautiful buildings and now no longer stand today.
😓😔. All world history has a unique story within walls of buildings and architecture, and to see the past still standing is amazing. Sad when it is not 😢

Huge mistake to move away from train travel.

Was there 2 women kissing (lesbians) in a painting about that lavish party? No shocked faces there!

Savoia Removing Ferrari from US history?

Excuse me but those "cheap appartments" are $1.5mil for 2br and $525k for a studio

I came here for the lost architecture not the life story of Charles Scwab.

They destroyed it because its a city not a country estate in Newport, they took up too much prime real estate.

I love them but they had no chance in hell of surviving and were too big to move

horrible this country has no respect for beauty

Times change landscapes get demolished.

This was an old world inherited building. Ruined as part of deleting the past.

A major dumb enough to not save a beautifull building like that, it could have contributed to NY as i sm sure it would have had milions of visitors, Versaille is still up! It takes stupidity of a person and everithing goes to dust!!! So sad!

beautiful building . im happy that the uk have beautiful buildings throughout like this . john lennon tho well he wasnt as nice as people make out . just ask his eldest son and his ex wife .... he wasnt peaceful had issues with his hands ....

This is why Europe is so beautiful.. they respect and conserve their architecture. America is ran on a sesspool of capitalistic sociopaths. I thought Tiffany's mansion led to conservation changes.. so what is up with Penn Station later getting demolished? Makes no sense. I went to college in NYC and rode the LIRR in and out of Penn Station everyday. Then one day I went to Grand Central Station to take another train to see a friend and was just awe struck at the beauty. It's horrible what capitalism and narcissism did to our architectural heritage in this country.

As a former NYC resident, NYC was the city of nightmares, not dreams. Crime, homelessness, overcrowding, overly expensive and racial discrimination was and is rampant. Just the races they discriminate against has changed. The subways smell of urine and rat droppings. People are nasty. Very little greenery. Just ugly cold concrete and brick. Glad I got out if there.

Old mud flood buildings, then found and demolished a short time later. Pre reset of civilization. They are much older than stated and demolished after VERY short life spans as no one was around to know how to deal with the tech in those buildings. The fireplaces had uranium, and it caused heat to be produced in the fireplace with no wood. Back then, radiation was considered harmless.

if what you say about the early Swabs was true they never would have gotten to their glory to begin with. Nice fairy tale you weave. Typical Brit envy. Yes, you took them all down but what did you achieve? Your own legacy is destruction nothing more. The Good will prevail despite our enemies.

The commentary is hilarious.".harmony and balance" there is nothing harmonious and balanced in such opulace. I'm sorry but I'm not buying that this house was built in only four years by a no name architect and it's association with New York orphan society raises some suspicions. Wiki says property was available because half was the orphan asylum. Google orphan trains and the sudden rise of insane asylum in the US. I can't believe it was tore down after only being in existence 40 ish years. Those buildings were made to last forever. The interior attention to detail is astounding and in my opinion makes the narrative impossible to be true. Every nook and cranny was highly detailed craftsmanship. The type of detail unheard of probably impossible to recreate today. I don't claim to have the answers. But I do claim bullshit on much of the history we are told. Just reading wiki descriptions of these amazing buildings shows u they basically cut and paste the same narrative over and over with names changed. The people in charge are not our friends.

They got taxed, like billionaires not paying taxes now, but like then they were made to play taxes.

The rumor of how the Dakota was named is a myth. It was not named after the geographical Dakota territory because the building was thought to be remote at the time. The effort to bring North and South Dakota into the union (1889) inspired the name of the building.

Wow this is an excellent documentary about these historical grand NY palaces ❤❤

Love everyone wears hats in those days

Love watching the series of gilded age on sky I knew it was going to be great as he did downton Abby series as well

Genuine wealth. I would have been a peasant in the 1900’s.

Such extravagance is beyond my ken, but I do love it! I struggle to understand the amount of money it must have taken to build all this opulence and to furnish it it beyond me!

I would have loved to have seen TIffany's mansion. I love stained glass and fine arts. What a sad shame that it was torn down! :((

Another racist movie I bet they all had maids and butler that were minority groups… they might as will have had slaves. Where the swab house apartments HUD….. I don’t think so

What a matchless architectural beauty and how very sad it was torn down! People today would love to see something like this, I can tell you with absolute certainty, myself included!

F*** the rich and anything associated with them!

It is a lie , it's not builded in 1906

That’s the difference between US and Europe, Europe treasuries their history 😢

All were beautiful, luxurious beyond compare, but built before insulation in walls and ceilings, all the chimneys took an army of wood cutters and a forest to supply it, some were able to update, but many weren't possible, not to mention the taxes NYC started hitting them up for.

They were demolished because the majority of these people were SWARTHY!!!

Visions,they made it happen,if it was not for them,us would be damaged.

Too much going on. Looks more like a museum inside

Wow wish I could visit 1900s - everything was so much more beautiful 😢

Who ever narrates sounds just like Mat Berry am I correct ty. Good show.

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