Most Extreme Excesses In The Gilded Age
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Date: 2022-12-29
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MegMegS
Lol so I have no doubt Cornelius wanted to one up William. But one of the reasons the Breakers was built the way it was, was because the house before the Breakers burnt down. And C. wanted a place where the structure could never be burned down. Also, the Breakers was built as a family home for during the summer. While Marble house was 1. built as part of a divorce settlement for Williams wife Ava, and 2. Ava designed Marble house to look like Versailles so she could host European nobility and hopefully (successfully) convince one of them to marry her daughter. So the houses were built for very different reasons. at least according to the Tourguides at both houses. Where all that info is from.
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Lol so I have no doubt Cornelius wanted to one up William. But one of the reasons the Breakers was built the way it was, was because the house before the Breakers burnt down. And C. wanted a place where the structure could never be burned down. Also, the Breakers was built as a family home for during the summer. While Marble house was 1. built as part of a divorce settlement for Williams wife Ava, and 2. Ava designed Marble house to look like Versailles so she could host European nobility and hopefully (successfully) convince one of them to marry her daughter. So the houses were built for very different reasons. at least according to the Tourguides at both houses. Where all that info is from.
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Marilyn
Its sad to just demolish these tactile examples of history. Many of the people who had them built travelled to foreign countries and bought many of their treasures to incorporate them into these homes. The craftsmanship in those items and even the materials used are now gone from the face of the earth and will never be seen by ourselves and future generations. What a waste. I dont really care about the extravagance that brought these homes into existence but the senseless waste of the beautiful art of the homes themselves is an insult to the genius craftsmen who made then works of art and should have protected them.
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Its sad to just demolish these tactile examples of history. Many of the people who had them built travelled to foreign countries and bought many of their treasures to incorporate them into these homes. The craftsmanship in those items and even the materials used are now gone from the face of the earth and will never be seen by ourselves and future generations. What a waste. I dont really care about the extravagance that brought these homes into existence but the senseless waste of the beautiful art of the homes themselves is an insult to the genius craftsmen who made then works of art and should have protected them.
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education
Amusing to think of the Vanderbilts as nouveau riche, to most Americans today they're the epitome of old money. Who are today's Vanderbilts? I know about Anderson Cooper but who are the others?
Diamond Jim and Lillian; with all their wealth they're best known for how much they ate? Shameful in an era of starvation!
The egret story; I liked learning this. I've heard little mention of the damage this age had on wildlife. Is this the same age when the beaver was nearly decimated for the sake of Astor's top hats and Audubon stared drawing animals that might not exist in the future?
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Amusing to think of the Vanderbilts as nouveau riche, to most Americans today they're the epitome of old money. Who are today's Vanderbilts? I know about Anderson Cooper but who are the others?
Diamond Jim and Lillian; with all their wealth they're best known for how much they ate? Shameful in an era of starvation!
The egret story; I liked learning this. I've heard little mention of the damage this age had on wildlife. Is this the same age when the beaver was nearly decimated for the sake of Astor's top hats and Audubon stared drawing animals that might not exist in the future?
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Colm
Psht. These people were nothing. Now we have a Walton that bought so much art she had to build a museum to house it. Only that wasn't enough, and she's building a 2nd next door. And I think she's the 'poorest' of the family. If they had the work/pay regulations of the 19th century at their disposal, you can be sure they wouldn't be building mansions, they would be building private skyscrapers. 'Billionaires Row' would have a very different meaning. Also, how did you not have a single picture of someone wearing egret feathers? There are hundreds available!
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Psht. These people were nothing. Now we have a Walton that bought so much art she had to build a museum to house it. Only that wasn't enough, and she's building a 2nd next door. And I think she's the 'poorest' of the family. If they had the work/pay regulations of the 19th century at their disposal, you can be sure they wouldn't be building mansions, they would be building private skyscrapers. 'Billionaires Row' would have a very different meaning. Also, how did you not have a single picture of someone wearing egret feathers? There are hundreds available!
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Kevin
LOL and homes that rivaled Neverland Ranch
All jokes aside Neverland truly was a beautiful and very magical and wonderful place at it's peak! Neverland truly was fit for a King! The King of Pop! The Legendary Michael Jackson!
With it's own theme park and zoo along with a full-sized theater with a help-yourself snack-bar very few modern estates compared with Neverland. Today Neverland is known as the Sycamore Valley Ranch.
If I was a billionaire. I would buy the Sycamore Valley Ranch and restore it to all's it's glory under MJ's ownership.
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LOL and homes that rivaled Neverland Ranch
All jokes aside Neverland truly was a beautiful and very magical and wonderful place at it's peak! Neverland truly was fit for a King! The King of Pop! The Legendary Michael Jackson!
With it's own theme park and zoo along with a full-sized theater with a help-yourself snack-bar very few modern estates compared with Neverland. Today Neverland is known as the Sycamore Valley Ranch.
If I was a billionaire. I would buy the Sycamore Valley Ranch and restore it to all's it's glory under MJ's ownership.
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Bruce
no need for the nostalgia of THAT Gilded Age. you're living in one, right this very minute! Look around, same antics, an incredibly wealthy minority manipulating everything from housing prices, food and energy prices, an onslaught of immigrants for cheap labor. making billions! Spending it on lavish abodes, here in the U. S. and around the world. Plus, having no concern for the average man in any land. No need to try to relive the 1890s. you're privileged to live through this most unequal of times in terms of wealth distribution. Revel in it!
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no need for the nostalgia of THAT Gilded Age. you're living in one, right this very minute! Look around, same antics, an incredibly wealthy minority manipulating everything from housing prices, food and energy prices, an onslaught of immigrants for cheap labor. making billions! Spending it on lavish abodes, here in the U. S. and around the world. Plus, having no concern for the average man in any land. No need to try to relive the 1890s. you're privileged to live through this most unequal of times in terms of wealth distribution. Revel in it!
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Stephan
You mix up so much information, I'm not sure where to start.
The March 1883 ball was hosted by Alva Vanderbilt & her husband William K. Vanderbilt. NOT CORNELIUS! The pictures you show of the interiors of Alva & W. K's MARBLE HOUSE are actually the 1West 57th street mansion of CORNELIUS II & ALICE (not WK & Alva's Petit Chateau)
Please. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!
OR, DON'T PRETEND TO BE A FACTUAL INFORMATION SITE
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You mix up so much information, I'm not sure where to start.
The March 1883 ball was hosted by Alva Vanderbilt & her husband William K. Vanderbilt. NOT CORNELIUS! The pictures you show of the interiors of Alva & W. K's MARBLE HOUSE are actually the 1West 57th street mansion of CORNELIUS II & ALICE (not WK & Alva's Petit Chateau)
Please. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!
OR, DON'T PRETEND TO BE A FACTUAL INFORMATION SITE
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Nan
Being from Rhode Island originally, I'm not unfamiliar with the excessive wealth that built cottages just to party for only 6 weeks a year. Thanks to the income tax, many of those cottages were abandoned because they are very expensive to run. Now museums. Today, I believe we are going through another guilded age. Our wealthiest and poorest are at the same level as then. Our wealthiest do not pay their fair of taxes either.
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Being from Rhode Island originally, I'm not unfamiliar with the excessive wealth that built cottages just to party for only 6 weeks a year. Thanks to the income tax, many of those cottages were abandoned because they are very expensive to run. Now museums. Today, I believe we are going through another guilded age. Our wealthiest and poorest are at the same level as then. Our wealthiest do not pay their fair of taxes either.
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Mark
OK I do like watching weird history its a very eye-opening place but in this video almost a half 1 million people have viewed it and I realize youve done something thats factually inaccurate. You have listed Cornelius Vanderbilt and Alva Belmont as being married but you actually show the Commodore and Alva so you have the wrong picture
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OK I do like watching weird history its a very eye-opening place but in this video almost a half 1 million people have viewed it and I realize youve done something thats factually inaccurate. You have listed Cornelius Vanderbilt and Alva Belmont as being married but you actually show the Commodore and Alva so you have the wrong picture
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Nina
Read the books once there were castles or fortunes many houses. Once there castles shows all the old houses in Mn. Build a grand house. 10 years later, build something new. Forth we many houses by Simon Welfare. keep building house after house, work on charity until you run out of money.
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Read the books once there were castles or fortunes many houses. Once there castles shows all the old houses in Mn. Build a grand house. 10 years later, build something new. Forth we many houses by Simon Welfare. keep building house after house, work on charity until you run out of money.
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Orianna
I tour the Newport Mansions. They were greedy, selfcentered? Immoral misers. The help asked for a raise and everyone of them were let go because of it. They were worked 24-7 for their small pay. i cant imagine the poor servant men and woman were at the mercy of these lowlifes.
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I tour the Newport Mansions. They were greedy, selfcentered? Immoral misers. The help asked for a raise and everyone of them were let go because of it. They were worked 24-7 for their small pay. i cant imagine the poor servant men and woman were at the mercy of these lowlifes.
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whatadollslife
the Conservatory of flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was originally purchased for James Lick to be built at his Santa Cara California home, before he passed away and it was donated to San Francisco and became a world tourist attraction after 1879
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the Conservatory of flowers in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was originally purchased for James Lick to be built at his Santa Cara California home, before he passed away and it was donated to San Francisco and became a world tourist attraction after 1879
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phantom
The Biltmore Estate is not still owned by the Vanderbilt Family. Cornelius died just before it was finished with no children. His wife inherited it all, remarried and then had children. That familys descendants own the estate. No Vanderbilt blood in them.
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The Biltmore Estate is not still owned by the Vanderbilt Family. Cornelius died just before it was finished with no children. His wife inherited it all, remarried and then had children. That familys descendants own the estate. No Vanderbilt blood in them.
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Kimberly
You can go to the Vanderbilt mansion near Asheville but it will cost you. I can't remember how much but I declined to go because I figured they were rich enough without me forking over a larger sum than I expected to pay for looking at a house.
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You can go to the Vanderbilt mansion near Asheville but it will cost you. I can't remember how much but I declined to go because I figured they were rich enough without me forking over a larger sum than I expected to pay for looking at a house.
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wolfgang
I would love to know what music poor or common people listened to in different eras like the Victorian era and the guilted age did they have access to any music? And was it different than conventional classical music?
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I would love to know what music poor or common people listened to in different eras like the Victorian era and the guilted age did they have access to any music? And was it different than conventional classical music?
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Tracy
Wow, insane! I think it was the Vanderbilts who built up their great fortune and then the subsequent generations blew through all the money building all them mansions, trying to outdo each other and everyone else.
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Wow, insane! I think it was the Vanderbilts who built up their great fortune and then the subsequent generations blew through all the money building all them mansions, trying to outdo each other and everyone else.
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Mauvaiset
1: 18 is wrong. The housewarming hostess was Alva Vanderbilt, but her husband was William K. Vanderbilt, not Cornelius. Also, 3: 33 is wrong. George Washington Vanderbilt was not William and Cornelius's son.
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1: 18 is wrong. The housewarming hostess was Alva Vanderbilt, but her husband was William K. Vanderbilt, not Cornelius. Also, 3: 33 is wrong. George Washington Vanderbilt was not William and Cornelius's son.
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cheesy1nacho
I live in Asheville, NC which is home to the Biltmore House. The largest house in the united states and its ridiculoussss. You can take tours of the whole property and it takes half to a full day minimum
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I live in Asheville, NC which is home to the Biltmore House. The largest house in the united states and its ridiculoussss. You can take tours of the whole property and it takes half to a full day minimum
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Marquies
Having been to the biltmore the damn place is insane for its size. indoor swimming pool, fitness room, the whole nine yardssmhand to think this was for Vs family, which was just him and his wife at the time
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Having been to the biltmore the damn place is insane for its size. indoor swimming pool, fitness room, the whole nine yardssmhand to think this was for Vs family, which was just him and his wife at the time
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Missi
ERROR: 1: 14-1: 24
Cornelius Vanderbilt was already dead for the 1883 dinner/ball.
Cornelius was NOT ever married to Alva.
Alva E. Smith was married to Cornelius' grandson, William K. Vanderbilt.
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ERROR: 1: 14-1: 24
Cornelius Vanderbilt was already dead for the 1883 dinner/ball.
Cornelius was NOT ever married to Alva.
Alva E. Smith was married to Cornelius' grandson, William K. Vanderbilt.
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