Articles relating to Gilded Age mansions, mansions and lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack of both governmental regulation and a personal income tax. The manor homes and city seats were designed by prominent architects of the day and decorated with antiquities, furniture, and works of art from the world over.
Pages in category "Gilded Age mansions"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 200 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Charles H. Baldwin House
- Beacon Towers
- Beechwood (Astor mansion)
- Beechwood (Vanderlip mansion)
- Belcourt of Newport
- Belle Grove Plantation (Iberville Parish, Louisiana)
- Benjamin N. Duke House
- Biltmore Estate
- Blairsden (house)
- Bois Doré (Newport, Rhode Island)
- Branch House
- The Breakers
- The Breakers (1878)
- Bremond Block Historic District
- Brookholt
- Alexander Brown House
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- Cairnwood
- Andrew Carnegie Mansion
- Carolands
- Carson Mansion
- Cartier Building
- The Casements
- Castle Hill (Ipswich, Massachusetts)
- Castle Rock (Garrison, New York)
- Charles H. Bigelow House
- Chateau-sur-Mer
- Clermont State Historic Site
- Cliff House, San Francisco
- Cobe Estate
- Copper King Mansion
- Cornelius Vanderbilt II House
- George B. Cox House
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- Malbone Castle and Estate
- Marble House
- Mark Hopkins Hotel
- Mark Twain House
- Maymont
- McCook Family Estate
- McDonald Mansion
- Meadow Brook Hall
- Ezra Meeker Mansion
- Merrywood
- Miramar (mansion)
- William H. Moore House
- Moreland-Hoffstot House
- Morey Mansion
- The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)
- Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House
- Mrs. William B. Astor House
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- Samuel Cupples House
- Scarlet Oaks
- Charles M. Schwab House
- Searles Castle (Massachusetts)
- Seaview Terrace
- Selma (Leesburg, Virginia)
- Shadow Brook Farm Historic District
- Fred B. Sharon House
- Shelburne Farms
- William Watts Sherman House
- Harry F. Sinclair House
- Sleepy Hollow Country Club
- Staatsburgh State Historic Site
- Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens
- Stimson House
- Stuyvesant Fish House (78th Street, Manhattan)
- Swannanoa (mansion)
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- Waldheim (Scarborough)
- Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House
- Walsh-McLean House
- Felix M. Warburg House
- Weigley Mansion
- Westbourne (Richmond, Virginia)
- Wheatleigh
- Whitehall (Henry M. Flagler House)
- Whitemarsh Hall
- Wilderstein
- Willard D. Straight House
- William A. Clark House
- William H. Wells House
- William K. Vanderbilt House
- Williams Mansion
- Winchester Mystery House
- Woodbury House (Woodbury, New York)