Category: Gilded Age

Century-Old “Chelsea Mansion” Opens Its Grand Gold Coast Gates in Muttontown, New York

Once a private retreat, the Chelsea mansion now invites the public to explore its romantic architecture, rich history, and tranquil grounds.

Naumkeag’s 30-year evolution, led by Mabel Choate and Fletcher Steele, forever changed landscape design with style and vision.

Oheka Castle, once shunned by society, rose as a 127-room Gilded Age marvel and still reigns today as a luxury icon.

Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill was a summer escape, political office, and chaotic family zoo—all under one Long Island roof.

In 1902, Edith Wharton designed her own mansion, wrote bestsellers there, then lost it all in a historic divorce.

A 100,000-square-foot all-American castle, Arden House blends ambition, tragedy, and legacy—standing tall as Harriman’s mountaintop dream.

Gilded Age palace built as a wedding gift survives a conman’s scam and becomes a $15M five-star hotel.

Once among America’s grandest homes, Rose Terrace’s demolition in 1976 remains a haunting lesson in lost architectural legacy.

Greentree’s elegance remains sealed behind gates, a perfectly preserved 1904 estate still echoing with the quiet dignity of legacy.

Lavish estates, opulent halls—New York’s Gilded Age mansions revealed the power behind America’s elite fortunes.