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Gilded Mansions
Gilded Mansions, The Gilded Age (1865–1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europ, Gilded Mansions has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Gilded Mansions
  • Written by author Wayne Craven
  • Published by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., October 2008
  • The Gilded Age (1865–1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europ
  • A lavishly illustrated history of the opulent art and architecture of the Gilded Age.The Barnes & Noble ReviewFor those readers with a penchant for the decorative arts and architecture, it will be hard to resist peeking beyond the glossy c
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An Introduction to the Gilded Age 7

Ch. 1 Society, Europe, and Aristocracy: The Empire of the Parvenu 19

Ch. 2 The Early Mansions - Part One 33

Ch. 3 The Early Mansions - Part Two 53

Ch. 4 The Commodore and Beetlehead: The William Henry Vanderbilt Mansion 81

Ch. 5 Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt: A Petit Chateau on Fifth Avenue 107

Ch. 6 The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion 129

Ch. 7 Newport: Vernacular versus Grandeur 151

Ch. 8 Richard Morris Hunt: Biltmore and The Rothschild Factor 185

Ch. 9 The Astor Mansion 207

Ch. 10 McKim, Mead and White: Origins of the Firm and the Early Work at Newport 227

Ch. 11 McKim, Mead and White: The Villard Houses 239

Ch. 12 Stanford White: Collector, Dealer, and Interior Decorator 257

Ch. 13 The William C. Whitney Houses 275

Ch. 14 Newport Revisited: Rosecliff Crossways, and The Elms 291

Ch. 15 The Progeny of the Petit Chateau and the Villard Houses 309

Ch. 16 Facades in the Modern French Manner 337

Endnotes 362

Bibliography 371

Index 375


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