" Manners for the Metropolis"

Isn't this a great picture! It is from a 1910 tongue in cheek book about Gilded Age etiquette. The book is called, " Manners for the Metropolis" An entrance key to the fantastic life of the 400. It's very funny and gives helpful hints for behaving amongst Mrs. Astor's set!

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Demolished Mansions of the Gilded Age

J.P. Morgan, Jr. Mansion, Glen Cove, New York

J.P. Morgan, Jr. Mansion Before Demolition

J.P. Morgan, Jr. Mansion at Glen Cove, Long Island, New York before it's demolition by dynamite in the early 1980s.

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Click HERE to read about, AMERICA'S DOOMED MANSIONS in Forbes.

Below are some of the great mansions of the, " Gilded Age" that have been destroyed.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion, Fifth Avenue, NY

Land's End, Sands Point, NY

Mark Hopkins Mansion, Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA

C.K.G. Billings Mansion named Farnsworth at, Locust Valley, NY

Villa Mille Fiore, Southampton, NY

Sargeant Cram Estate, Old Westbury, NY

Harbor Hill, Roslyn, NY

Jay Gould's Mansion, Fifth Avenue, NY

Ragtime

Fifth Avenue & 58th Street

Here is a great movie called Ragtime. It's takes place in the early 1900's at the height of New York's, "Gilded Age".

" Who killed Society"

A great must read book about " Gilded Age Society" by Cleveland Amory!

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The Mark Hopkins Mansion, San Francisco

The Mark Hopkins Mansion on Nob Hill, San Francisco.

The Mark Hopkins mansion on Nob Hill, San Francisco. One of the most elaborate Victorian mansions ever built. Destroyed in the aftermath of the great earthquake of 1906.
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