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Hyde Park's Vanderbilt Mansion: Building a Gilded Age House

Hyde Park's Vanderbilt Mansion: Building a Gilded Age House

FromThe Gilded Gentleman


Hyde Park's Vanderbilt Mansion: Building a Gilded Age House

FromThe Gilded Gentleman

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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Jun 25, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Carl is joined by curator Frank Futral for a special on-location visit to the Vanderbilt Mansion in New York's Hudson Valley.  Built for Frederick Vanderbil tand his wife Lousie by legendary firm  McKim, Mead and White, the mansion is a work of art itself combining classic Beaux Arts style with unique and rare architectural elements brought from Europe.  Frank takes Carl on a room by room tour of the mansion to explain just how this magnificent house was built and just how it is very different from the great mansions of Newport. Visit the Gilded Gentleman website for more information
Released:
Jun 25, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Gilded Gentleman history podcast takes listeners on a cultural and social journey into the mansions, salons, dining rooms, libraries and theatres including the worlds above as well as below stairs of America's Gilded Age, France's Belle Epoque and late Victorian and Edwardian England. thegildedgentleman.com