Long Island Society

Click HERE for a great article about Long Island's North Shore society which I posted last year. For those who missed it , it is a wonderful story with rare photographs!

"Mansions of the Gilded Age" on facebook

 If you love Gilded Age Mansions and the architecture and social history of this era, please friend, " Gilded Age Mansions" on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002918473051

If you would like to read more, please join my group on facebook, "Mansions of the Gilded Age", http://www.facebook.com/groups/195023140518735/ .

 I do research everyday for ongoing projects and find numerous interesting, blogs, sites and photos about Gilded Age mansions and the era. You will find more at the group which you can read anytime. Also more extensive coverage of many of these houses and estates are featured in my Blogs, "Mansions of the Gilded Age",http://garylawrance.blogspot.com/ and Houses of the Hamptons http://housesofthehamptons.blogspot.com/ 

I have also just created a facebook bookstore page for "Mansions of the Gilded Age", in which I will be posting favorite books, movies and media about Gilded Age mansions and the families that lived in them. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mansions-of-the-Gilded-Age/346091208739642 .

 Thank you all for your great interest in these historic structures and it is through places like facebook and blogs that we can all share and make others aware of our architectural heritage.

Whitemarsh Hall, The Estate of Edward and Eva Cromwell Stotesbury.

The garden at Whitemarsh Hall

Whitemarsh Hall was one of the masterpieces of architect Horace Trumbauer. The building of this mansion from the ground up,to it's horrible demolition can be viewed, HERE at this wonderful website devoted to it!

Seaview Terrace, Newport, Rhode Island

Also known as, Collinwood, the ancestral home of the Collins Family from the 1960s Gothic Soap Opera, "Dark Shadows"

Please follow this page, Edson Bradley's, "Seaview Terrace" on Facebook. It is written by a person who has spent years documenting it.

Guess which mansion was here?

The site of one of the great mansions of the Gilded Age.

To find out and read about the evolution and destruction of this magnificent mansion join my group, Mansions of the Gilded Age on Facebook. You can also friend, Gilded Age Mansions on Facebook. I will be posting a more expanded story about this house shortly here.

Newport Mansions

Take a look at this wonderful collection of over 700 postcards from the archives of Salve Regina College at Newport, Rhode Island. The College is located in the former Ogden Goelet mansion, Ochre Court designed by Richard Morris Hunt and is considered the largest mansion in Newport after the Breakers.

Postcards
Ochre Court
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