I appreciate your longer content, which allows the viewer to follow a thread connecting a number of houses and how they are part of a family’s history.

I always wonder what happens when people with multiple residences are looking for that green sweater they just _have_ to wear? Does that start a barrage of phone calls by the servants to different homes, or does one just buy that green sweater for every single house? Oy, such problems!

@johnmontag

Ай бұрын

At this time, labor was so cheap. You’d just buy 1 for every house if you were smart

I had never seen a lot of the earlier Duke homes in Durham before. Thanks Ken!

I love all your videos and look forward to them along with the included history lesson. You are very knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Amazing homes. A 40,000 sqft house is mind boggling. If I had a little bit of money, I would be happy just to have a personal chef.

@lisadolan689

Ай бұрын

I’d rather have a cleaner 😫😫😫

@dmd5645

Ай бұрын

​@@lisadolan689😂😂🤣🤣 exactly!!.

James "Buck" also founded Duke Energy. Duke Energy's history began more than a century ago when James B. Duke led a group that built a system of lakes and dams along the Catawba River to generate electricity that would drive the economic growth of the Piedmont Carolinas. Through the years, many other companies have joined this tradition.

@sandybruce9092

Ай бұрын

We pay Duke-Energy every month - no choice!

Thank you Ken. I love this new format 15 mins is perfect 👌 🤩♥️

Wonderful! The Hawaiian house was so beautiful! I worked for a couple of years in the Frist Duke House on Fifth Ave. (mid-'90s), selling what few antiques were left in the house to local dealers in Manhattan.

Doris Duke was larger than the life she inherited - she broke traditions, boundaries and stereo types in high style with no regrets. Her story is worthy of a movie - and it all began on a sharecropper tobacco farm in pre Civil War North Carolina.

@BlaineShire

Ай бұрын

UM her life was made into a movie 'TOO RICH: THE SECRET LIFE OF DORIS DUKE' staring the late great Lauren Bacall.

@rustybearden1800

Ай бұрын

@@BlaineShire that was a mediocre "made for TV" miniseries

@BlaineShire

Ай бұрын

@@rustybearden1800 It is still a move..

@rustybearden1800

Ай бұрын

@@BlaineShire not really

@BlaineShire

Ай бұрын

@@rustybearden1800 still a movie Mr. Movie Critic.

I’ve been watching you for years. This was one of my favorites.

Thanks Ken! An amazing story and an amazing video.

I have an interest in Doris Duke after living in Newport. I visited Rough point several times. I think it is my favorite of the summer cottages. Her story is so interesting. Bittersweet.

Nice story about the dukes and how they got rich at the expense of many of their customers getting sick from the tobacco. I'm so glad today that the governments are going after these companies and getting them to pay some of the medical bills of people who are getting sick from the tobacco. My dad, rest is soul, was I think one of them!

@corrineagnello4584

17 күн бұрын

It wasn’t known back then tobacco caused cancer.

Thanks for posting, love your videos.

Great story, and i am glad she did important things with her money. Thanks ken

This was terrific! I learned a lot from this episode.

Daddy's got pneumonia, it's freezing outside, quick Doris...open the window!

From 1820 to 1993 in one video. And so many houses! Great video.

Thanks Ken, what an interesting video! The brothers' Manhattan mansions are some of my favorite. I think the mansion on 84th and 5th was built as a spec house, four houses or so in a row by the same builder, with buyers to materialize later. I had forgotten about Shangri-La! Thanks again! *edit: 82nd st and 5th ave.

One of your best videos Ken, thank you. I always wonder what happened to the salvageable materials when a mansion is demolished.

Shangri-La. Stunning

Interesting family history. It is a shame that manny of the houses of that time are now gone. The dominican diplomatic she married was called Profirio Rubirosa.

All magnificent but my favourite Duke mansion is one that wasn't built. Horace Trumbauer designed an enormous French chateau style mansion for Duke Farms. The floor plan and an image of what it would have looked like can be found on-line.

Keep up the good work..😀

Особняк Джейса Дьюка - строгая стилизация под французский классицизм, лаконичная и очень статная. Усадьба его дочки Дорис - настоящая восточная сказка

Doris Duke and Duke Uni--didn't know there was a connection. ❤❤Brodie's Durham County Italianate mansion. The interior of Ben's mansion didn't disappoint either, including the second Manhattan mansion. Ditto for Buck's mansion. The lives and grand homes of the extraordinarily wealthy--so interesting.. Thank you, Ken.

And I guess there's more about the Duke fortunes(?) Great video 👍👏

I am craving the rich mellow flavor of This House

Learned something NEW!!. Did not know they were the originators of the tobacco companies!. Now i know Why they became so wealthy!. I like that original red brick townhouse mansion facing Central Park!. It just went up for sale a year or two ago. I viewed a virtual tour and was completely UNIMPRESSED!. The ONLY thing left is the structure--but the new designers had to modernize the whole frickin thing. No ornate chandeliers, or period French style furniture (which is what those rooms were designed to showcase!!). Well, at least its still here. And, we all can still aspire!!. Lol. 🍾🥂⚜️

“After a brief imprisonment…” wait, I want to hear more 😆

When James Duke was on his deathbed in the Manhattan house his wife told the servants to open up all of the windows and shut off the boiler. Not long after he drifted away.

I was wondering if the estate house that Mary Duke Biddle was going to b mentioned. This estate is located in Tarrytown NY. It became Tarrytown Confrence Center.

in the 1980.s I rode horses at the NJ location of Doris Dukes Mansion It is so sad to hear that it was razed

I live in North Carolina and just about everything with the Duke name is from this family!

Dem Duke Boys

What does Lindbergh estate look like in Hawaii?

The North Carolina mansion has been torn down?

Two ads in one 13 minute video? Nope!

First

@Nunofurdambiznez

Ай бұрын

Congratulations!! Your cookie AND a shiny aluminum medal are on their way to your lovely home right this minute!

Duke decided to abandon farming and ventured into the tobacco buisness /facepalm

So their fortune came from tobacco, a deadly product.

@sandybruce9092

Ай бұрын

Many rich families got their money from tobacco. Makes me sick!