Yes, one can perhaps describe the Gilded Age as decadent, but they produced beautiful things unlike our own decadent age that embraces ugliness.
Beautiful old home.
Love that staircase pic.
Yeah. That modern art crap would have t ago.
The location is NOT for me....LOL
They couldn’t pay me to live in NY, let alone NYC.
Can you repost the link? For some reason it sends me to MSN “personalized news page”
I do like the look of dark hard woods.
Translation: old NYC townhouse with original stairs.
I’m watching the series on Prime...
I'll pass...
Who would want to pay the property yax on that...in NYC??? The best part of it is that has stood for so long.
Guessing that horrid decor is staging by the real estate agent who is doing nothing to encourage a buyer.
>> I enjoy going to Gilded Age mansions in period clothing.
Clapping madly! What a great thing to do.
I found our next house.
“the decadent era”?
I guess they must mean the era that caused the economy and innovation to EXPLODE in America?
I bristle when I hear terms like “decadent era”, “robber barons”, etc. Smart brave men made tons of money, and I’m OK with that; look what they gave us.
Zohan Mamdani could fit at least 10 families in that house.
Slava stroiteliam kommunizma!
The novelty here is that this survives in NYC. These gems exist all over the country. When time permits, it’s always fun to visit the historic homes, historic districts, and museum houses in smaller cities and towns, and in rural areas.
The Guilded Age was not a period of decadence. It was a brief moment in which the new fortunes of the industrial revolution opened the door for new classes to build the kind of baronial estates that had previously been reserved for a tiny aristocratic elite. The great Victorian piles actually represent a democratization of wealth and privilege.
Transportation was still slow enough that people built great residences with a fixity of place that is now long gone. Guests often stayed for much longer periods than now. Live-in help was still common. And the tax structure did not force hiding wealth.
Our most recent discovery was the historic districts in Parkersburg, WV. We have zipped through Parkersburg innumerable times over the years, always making tracks on long road trips. We finally stopped to check Blennerhasset off our bucket list. Blennerhasset is a reconstruction, but since it requires a ferry boat ride, it burns enough time that we stayed overnight and explored the historic district the next morning. Amazing homes, as seen only from the outside. We are thinking of going back for the Christmas house tour. Architecturally, an elegant NYC brownstone is outclassed. The same is true of many great Victorians around the country.
truly uninteresting furniture and no interesting collections
The home of a nobody
It’s really lovely.
BTTT
Yes, I would use all those modern sideboards for kindling and throw the chairs with tubular arms and legs in the dumpster.