I think it’s awful that these beautiful buildings were torn down for glass high-rises.

@susanh.352

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you.. Our world will never see such beautiful architecture again.

@JohnSmith-li7xe

Жыл бұрын

makes more sense to me. NY got too popular and having mansions made less sense when space was so limited on the island.

@kosiekoos9408

Жыл бұрын

Glass is cheap and don't require 90 servants, a guy with a squeegee will do.

@jannepetersen4660

Жыл бұрын

Who cares.....

@elliej11j68

11 ай бұрын

@@jannepetersen4660 People that appreciate beauty perhaps? They are entitled to their opinions are they not? I personally do care, but at the same time I appreciate that nothing stays the same and life moves on.

Demolishing beauties to replace them with ugly boxes, none of these should've ever come down

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

So true. Thanks for watching!

@WorthyistheLambRev1

Жыл бұрын

All over the world at one time. The Rothchilds banking cartel set fires to every major city, and others demolished the World's Fair million dollar buildings. Watch WF Paris. To me they look like remnants of the millennial reign of Christ, passed!. Including the Castles and Cathedrals. Founded means found it like that! The Dark Ages may have been the opposite! Jesus'reign. There was a mudflood, when it ended. Look for mudflood windows and sunken buildings. Melted mountains everywhere. Like Armegeddon already happened. Some think we're in Satan loosed again from his prison for a short season to deceive. Rev 20. We went backwards! Everything is ugly. And a lie! Including history.

The fact that NYC allowed these buildings to be demolished shows how short sighted they all were/are.

@crixxxxxxxxx

Жыл бұрын

Not short-sighted at all. Financially practical. You get a hell of a lot more taxes out of an office/apartment building than a single-family private home.

In my estimation, Millionaires Row had much more style, glamour, opulence and grace than Billionaires Row ever will. A friend of mine, who is a Real estate broker For the properties on billionaires row took me on a tour of some of the places and.... Although some of the amenities and definitely views are rather stunning, I found The allegiant style is cold, Common And lackluster.

It is super sad to see them demolished

Truly is a shame these were all torn down!

I rather have the millionaire mansions, then these high rise glass buildings with stores, what a shame..

You showed the Harkness Mansion, now home of the Commonwealth Fund, at the beginning of your video, and then didn’t talk about it. Too much time spent on demolished homes, and hardly any spent on still extant buildings. Shortsighted.

@denisebailey512

Жыл бұрын

In the first paragraph the narrator talks about former homes they will be discussing

After 50 years in Manhattan I moved west. But before I moved, repeatedly I visited The Frick Collection on Fifth at 70th Street -- great size (not too big) and I so wish that someday they would service the organ at the top of the stairs and hold a concert. Also, for anyone attending a Fifth Avenue parade like the St. Patty's Day Parade, outside The Frick is one of the best places to view it -- no litter, no drunken kids from the suburbs, small, manageable crowds -- pleasant.

I thoroughly enjoy all your videos! Thank you so much for creating this great space on KZread! Keep doing what you're doing

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

The Morgan library/house is a beautiful building and interior.

Your comments about the Duke family's ownership of the house on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street were very interesting. I didn't know about it's multigenerational association with the Dukes. There is though another still-standing Duke family residence nearby absolutely worthy of mention. On the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 78th Street is now the beautiful NYU Art Institute, which was built as the home of James B. Duke, of the aforementioned North Carolina industrial family.

Loved your virtual tour. Thank you. So very interesting

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!

I loved the Frick house i visited it on a trip to New York its such a shame all the others were torn down

Thanks so much for keeping history alive! I love to watch your videos and I totally enjoy them! Maybe you could do a video about rich celebrities fancy new York homes.

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Will add it to our list. Thank you!

It's a shame how New York treated its beautiful mansions...incredible...and if you look at NY now...skyscrapers & modern ugliness...I'm so glad I live in Amsterdam, where we have all these 17th Century canals & mansions...

Excellent! Thank you for this!

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I love how he says " Fancy Shamancy" with a serious authoritative British accent . This narrator is fabulous

Too bad that these mansions on Fifth Avenue were torn down and only replaced by building for businesses even luxury condos, the great history of New York Fifth Avenue.

@CuriousEarthMan

Жыл бұрын

Often they would give the owner of the mansion a grand apartment in the new structure for them to live in, to incentivize them to sell out. (the luxury apts had better views of the park too) Remember, income tax came in and property taxes were expensive, and generations that followed the original builders didn't have the same relative wealth as the family founder......I think it is too bad too! I have often thoughts ho they could have been saved, but few have that kind of money, or think it makes sense to save them, except nowadays, the super-rich are more plentiful in NY, such as hedge fund billionaire's. It's still expensive to keep them. Many mansions in many places were demolished because of the expenses. This is true in Millbrook NY too, as an example.

Thanks, loved it.

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video living in NYC its sad people get rid of history. Id love to drive down 5ave in 1890s just to see that no apartment just mansions In LA where I'm from they had a place called bunker hill and mansions were built in 1880 by 1910s it was considered obsolete and by 1950s rundown. The whole bunker hill streets and mansions were torn down and flattened the street to make way for LA music center. No one knows about that beauty just like not seeing 5ave in its heyday at least some still exist. You should do a story on bunker hill lots of movies were filmed there

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. We will research it.

It just makes me sad they would demolish the beautiful homes.

Great Video, very Informative, I see these Mansions everyday when I go and come from work, I work at Lenox hill hospital on 77 between park and Lexington Avenue..They’re very Beautiful..

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

One that you missed is the magnificent "Gilded Age" mansion in Murray Hill Manhattan - the James F. Lanier house!...just 2 blocks off 5th Avenue.

Great video! The Clark Mansion (Clark's Foley) is part of a fascinating story as told in the book "Empty Mansions" by Bill Dedman and Paul Clarke Newell Jr. that tells of William A. Clark's life, a self-made millionaire, and how he made his fortune. He was also a US Senator. The focus of the book is his daughter who died recently, I think in 2014, at age 104 or something like that. She owned several empty mansions and 5th Ave apartments but she lived her last 25 yrs in a nearby hospital...by choice! One such mansion in California had been kept pristine in case she might happen to come by, but her last visit there was when she was a child. Read the book...I couldn't put it down.

You missed the Otto Kahn Mansion. It sits directly north and across the street from the Carnegie Mansion. In my opinion it somewhat dwarfs the Carnegie Mansion in mere bulk. Anyone who would walk the said stretch of Fifth Avenue would immediately notice it, though probably not by name.

@CuriousEarthMan

Жыл бұрын

I remember walking by and around this mansion numerous times, once of a warm spring evening in particular. I especially enjoyed how it had a drive within it, to pull in off the street and allow guests to disembark under cover and within the footprint of the building.

So many gorgeous historic mansions razed and replaced with UGLY commercialism!

So sad that these beautiful buildings have been lost 😞

Very nice compilation! Great information and photos

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for visiting!

God bless all

Ugh the demolishing makes me so sad

Congratulations

Question; would this be the area where the Show The Gilded Age bw located? Thx

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Yes, when they are in Manhattan.

985 5th Ave, one of the twin Brokaw mansions on 5th, was 25.5 by 115 feet, had 6 floors plus lower level, and 30 rooms. It sold in 1941 for $100,000.

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

That’s a fantastic price!

@jdpb63

Жыл бұрын

@@schmancy2978 Not if you were the seller!

Good morning everyone

I'm always amazed that the homes entry doors just opened onto the street with nothing but perhaps a sidewalk between the street and the home.

I'm curious as to why they were built so close to other buildings. If I had a mansion, I'd want it to be surrounded by a decent amount of land and not be so close to my neighbors 😂

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

New York real estate was (and still is) highly scarce. People are happy with the little they can get.

@CuriousEarthMan

Жыл бұрын

For some, these were their places in town, with mansions situated on larger properties elsewhere, depending on the family. Some of these were in fact their grander homes, since showing off to society was part of the allure, though their remote "cottages" were mansions in their own right. Few of those families spent their summers in NYC. So déclassé you know :)

The Garden Court at the Frick mansion that you show was not built during his lifetime. It opened in 1935 when the house reopened as a museum. 2 houses that I'm surprised didn't make your list: the actual James B. Duke mansion (corner 5th Ave and E 78th St) and the Otto Kahn mansion just across E 91st St from the Carnagie mansion.

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info on the Frick. For this list, we chose to go with the most extravagant or those 5th Ave mansions with very unique characteristics. Thanks for visiting!

@LJB103

Жыл бұрын

@@schmancy2978 Then what about the Tiffany interiors and the enormous art collection of the Henry O. Havemeyer mansion on the corner of 5th Ave and E 66th St?

I thought you said you would show the houses that were still standing not what is there now?

The lack of preservation and respect for beautiful old buildings is shocking.

Number 11 was beautiful

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Thanks for watching!

You left out the Otto Kahn mansion which is extant, huge and exquisite.

These buildings should of been kept, they were beautiful & they could of been used for movies & TV series story lines such as gossip girl & other rich people

Regarding the Warburg Mansion/Jewish Museum, you skipped over the first, modern addition which, like Kevin Roche's addition, connected the Museum with the next building. The first addition had a totally Modernistic look - complete contrast with the entirr Warburg facade.😢

Does anyone know, did these homes have onsite rooms for servants? Top floor maybe, or basement?

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

They all had servants quarters.

This seem Av Paulista SP 🇧🇷, previously there has many old mansions, today every turned into modern bulding.😢

Who's in charge?? These beautiful homes should stay where they are! No one can Master the Architecture of those buildings again!!!

I can’t watch any more , waest of money , Webster of art , west of Beauty ….soo sad

I was hoping to see current homes not a history lesson.

saw this and almost wondered where the heck are these so called mansions. Glad I'm not crazy and they just been knocked down now. Thought my entire life in NYC was lived in tunnel vision.

How appalling to have had those beautiful mansions demolished. For profit.

Interesting video about NYC disasterous architectural demises (they did not even need a Chicago fire!) In 1912, My dad was an 8 year old Italian immigrant doing odd jobs for the super rich (what child labor laws?)...even scrubbing the Carrera marble staircases for the Roosevelts..(and no, he was not impressed with the fierce French communist guardian of Miss Eleanor). By the time I moved to NYC in 1992, (understandably) had a complete blind spot about the mansions- past or present... Honestly, grateful that I did not know about your research when i lived in NYC...at that time, just did not have spiritual maturity to shrug off the games of the super rich.

My God, but didn’t they have more money than sense lol 🙈🙈🙈

feel like central park was just build around the mansions and not reverse. What was the reason all these different people decided to build right next to each other. And where did they park their cars?

So sad they take out so many historical houses...and good they preserve others in museums.

I personally went to 5th Avenue in New York, because I was already at the BANK. So I took a stroll down the block. 🖊️

This has to be the most tragic video I have ever seen regarding the destruction of architectural masterpieces; only to be replaced by a ridiculous concrete jungle of ugly buildings.

What is absolutely even more amazing at how these children and grandchildren frittered away their family fortune that the Scion had actually worked very hard for. I am glad that rich parents are a little better these days by actually encouraging their children to work for their inheritance. Remember too that these spendthrifts were squandering their money long before there was ever and INCOME TAX!!! Imagine getting your check each month with no taxes taken out!

@schmancy2978

Жыл бұрын

Well said. Thanks for sharing!

@annonymously331

11 ай бұрын

Not really true. When Cornelius 2 died, he was actually just as rich as he was when he got his inheritance and would have been richer had he not given part of his fortune to charity. The reason the Vanderbilts lost their fortune was because their business was becoming irrelevant

@annehersey9895

11 ай бұрын

@@annonymously331 There were so many others though who never worked a day in their lives and just partied and partied. Part of the problem was they had so many children and only, usually the oldest male was the one who took over the business while the others just frittered it away. Some families like the Fords made room for other children in the business. I was neighbors with William Hearst III or IV-it was 1969 so I forget. He was in my town of 30,000 for the summer working at our local Hearst paper to learn from the ground up between years in college. We had a party and he brought EdselFord III in his brand new Shelby Mustang. They were both down to earth and introduced themselves as Willy and Eddie. But they both were at least expected to do something!

God this is depressing! 😢

So sad they tore down most of those beautiful homes.

At least in New York they build something that still looks quite nice and impressive but in Romania for exemple is the same story. They demolished lots of beautiful old buildings from the interbelic era but they build those ugly soviet miserable concrate building all over the country. Nothing beautiful in them but in NY those skyscrapers are still impresive and give a amazing panorama. Especially at night.Great video!

Sad that these buildings have been destroyed

It is so sad that the heritage of literally the men who built America is gone except for a few treasures that the Mayor got bullied-quite rightly-by the public to preserve these gems instead of demolish them.

Burns me up that the gems were torn down by greedy developers to build ugly eyesores in their place.

Most cities have historical preservation societies that have preserved notable buildings. NYC has a bad habit of not preserving historical buildings and they just keep tearing down the old and replacing them with bigger buildings. No sentiment, just concerned with money.

Those gorgeous pre-existing Tartarian mansions that they all bought within a 5-10 year period, coincidentally..... For almost all of them to be demolished within a few years of each other. ..... Coincidentally...... Sure okay.

It's not the cost of build its the maintenance that's the killer. Taxpayers beware.

These houses being demolished is congruent with my fears of investing $1oo million on a billionaire row penthouse. The Titanic might have ruined the Astor's but if banks continue to relocate out from New York, and the situation on the street doesn't improve, things could change and the real estate might not find a buyer who will pay the astronomical prices. You wouldn't tear down a condo building on Billionaire row, but a city which has extremely expensive property needs to continue growing in wealth and prosperity. Detroit is what it is because people, over time, decided to abandon the city, and technology allows people to do the same work from anywhere. American culture will thrive far better when families think dynastically. These beautiful houses are being replaced with ugly structures. New York needs a masterplanned community just north of central park. It's there where they should invest in greater density, but still keep the buildings 8-1o stories tall. When you come south, you start to see more money spent on finer aesthetics, but it gives plenty of 6 figure earners, who are priced out, an opportunity to get on the property ladder, and increasing the property value north of the park ought to increase the property values south of the park, and the north park people have a great view of the park and billionaire's row. I don't know if you can have restaurants, I don't think you're allowed to utilize any natural gas in the city. It's good ambition to have people want to build such marvelous abodes, but we have to remember what Immanual Kant stated before we do, we need a system which allows us to retain ownership of their property. Making the decision to build needs to be considered very carefully, but it is most helpful making these decisions if there is consistency regarding ownership once built. Property tax rates ought to be fixed and not subject to change. Having families in the city occupying these homes for generations and paying taxes year in year out results in a better city because they will have been invested in the city for generations. You can't accomplish as much from tax receipts as you can from citizens genuinely interested in making the correct investments which sustain the city. The government ought to want every citizen to own property, and it ought not concern itself too much regarding who owns what. Penalizing people for being ambitious just decreases the ambition possessed by every person in the city. People think it ignorant to be ambitious because it ends in ruin, but that's because of jealously, not a real reason which is justified. Imagine if the Astors still hosted and carried on that tradition, the culture would be benefitted and they would be a New York family which attracts people and compels them to take pride in the city.

It's sad that history was torn down for these horrible looking buildings.

WHO LET SO MANY PHILLISTINES LOOSE IN NYC IN 1927?

So many of these were downright ugly. Maintenance costs must have been exorbitant, as well as taxes. It's nice to see that the ones that were saved (Frick, Carnegie, WIllard) were the most attractve, most unostentatious.

I feel awful for the millionaires had there wonderful homes torn down to create a billionaires row. It’s something that hurts me to the core daily. I suggest we start a protest ……oh and lots of good looting as well

😂 What row you mean the empty spaces😮 Now if you can fill it with "humans" and stop labeling "Millionaire" Cashing now that's priceless 🎉

How could they have been demolished to be replaced by shitty cheap and ugly modern buildings?. I can understand it.

💘 *PromoSM*

I would go see them... but New York looks crowded as all hell. And most of them are gone.

Nope, can’t watch where there used to be beautiful mansions that were replaced with mediocre boxes.

Isn't it wonderful to know- that you could just as easily be assaulted mugged car jacked smashed in the head walking out of your house on 5th Avenue as you could anywhere else in Manhattan because Manhattan on the Democrat rule is a cesspool of violence and lawlessness where criminals do not serve in jail and innocent civilians look over their shoulders at all times knowing that there is literally no one there authorized to protect them and that is reality and I defy anyone to say it is not!

@carolannpacificadam1944

Жыл бұрын

Lmfao off your meds again?

@MC-342

Жыл бұрын

Manhattan has always been that way. Democratic rule or not. Come on. Smh

THOSE "DEVELOPERS" RUIN EVERYTHING

Greed and unfettered capitalism turned beauty into ugliness over the years in New York. If still standing, those mansions would be worldwide tourist attractions and eternal symbols of the greatest city in the world. Look what they've done to the once deliciously seedy 42nd street. Where is the Carnegie deli? And the Stage? What's become of Herald Square? Oy!