All tagged gilded age
The death of brothers Ogden and Robert Goelet near the end of the nineteenth century left vast multi-million estates for their heirs
While the Goelet name is readily associated with number of familiar gilded age mansions and estates, due to them often living within a stones throw of each other and the preponderance of males in the family with the name Robert, sometimes confusing to know which Goelet actually lived where!
Amongst all the bold-faced names associated with Long Islands Gold Coast, “Phipps” stands out. Social, sporty and philanthropic, as an aggregate, few families could approach the scale of the half-dozen or more estates they owned and the legacy they created.
As we walked past the massive brownstone Engineers Club on a visit to Baltimore we were unable to resist peeking inside. Our quick view of some of the stunning interiors whet my appetite to learn more about the building’s history and the people who lived there.
A brisk walk around one of the squares and peeking down some side streets not only rewarded us with remarkably fine examples of mid-nineteenth century domestic architecture, but also the opportunity to take an up-close look at interiors by Charles A Platt, Stanford White, John Russell Pope, and Delano and Aldrich all on the same block!
When imagining the scenes set in Newport from Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, it is all too easy to picture the characters swanning in and out of Marble House, Rosecliff, The Elms, or other mansions of their ilk. Yet the Newport from the 1870s and 1880s that she wrote of in her book looked quite different in reality. Fortunately, there is a neighborhood in Newport that still retains some of that "Age of Innocence" character.....
