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Hardcover Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society Book

ISBN: 0393067548

ISBN13: 9780393067545

Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society

The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth--especially where their homes were concerned.

They erected French chateaus and Italian palazzos...

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