What Happened to Rockefeller's Mansion in Manhattan?

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  • @jillgross3968
    @jillgross3968 2 года назад +93

    I love the old elements of the home. I grew up in a large Victorian home. We had chores too. My Dad sold insurance for Mutual of Omaha from the early 1960's through 1984. He was also a horse breeder if American Palomino Quarter Horses and a few spare Appaloosas. I loved our ornate home with tourettes!
    The Rockefeller home with heavy wood paneling and wall paper was a classic! Every detail more beautiful than the next! I love especially the staircase and fireplaces! I think they make a stately home!
    I just love your videos of these classic, beautiful homes. It makes me sad to see them destroyed. Can you imagine this home refurbished today? I wish it were possible! In California, historic homes of the 20's and 30's are destroyed daily to make way for garish buildings and apartments! Beautiful homes that were owned by Valentino, the Pickfords, etc. It makes me cry!

    • @cookoutdoor881
      @cookoutdoor881 2 года назад +6

      You cry for demolishing such masterpieces, me too, but life goes on… The best of new buildings to replace these masterpieces, have only meagre craftsmanship, quality and aesthetics compared to those demolished.

    • @The_Smith
      @The_Smith 2 года назад +7

      Jill, I am not poking fun at you, please take this in all good humour, but your spelling mistake of tourettes for what I assume you meant turrets made me laugh. I live in a creaky old house that is always making weird noises, so I'm now going to think of it as having tourettes . . . again PLEASE don't take this as anything but good humour, I am the last person who should ever poke bad fun at someones spelling or language ;)

    • @lauralunamartin7331
      @lauralunamartin7331 Год назад

      @@The_Smith thank you for figuring out what they meant by "tourettes" - I had no idea what that was supposed to mean!!

  • @kellingtonlink956
    @kellingtonlink956 2 года назад +75

    Start to finish… one of your best. It is refreshing a (mini) documentary that didn’t focus on him being a monopolist and/or the questionable business practices of those days. You gave him and his home the justices they deserved. Well done Sir. Thanks for the video.

  • @vince1638
    @vince1638 2 года назад +336

    My father was a N.Y.C. kid. Rockefeller was known to carry a pocket full of dimes he would hand out to every kid he saw. My dad also shook Thomas Edisons hand after winning a footrace in grammar school in Manhattan.

    • @billyboy969
      @billyboy969 Год назад +12

      Well 4 him to hand out dimes would be like me chipping off a bit of copper from my one cent, throwing it to a thousand people and telling them to share it. 😆

    • @TransGurl.VrilX.1488
      @TransGurl.VrilX.1488 Год назад +14

      I'm from cleveland ohio. i know who rockefeller was. I studied urban development for 4 years. they taught us race theory and mass sterilization of unwanted misfits in my schooling while i was dismembering the english language at the time

    • @bazinga9473
      @bazinga9473 Год назад +13

      This is definitely one of my favorite comments I've ever seen on YT. Rockefeller seems to have been a really good hearted man. And shaking Thomas Edison's hand... that's just too cool. Glad you have these stories to share with others

    • @vince1638
      @vince1638 Год назад +19

      @@bazinga9473 Im happy to hear you appreciate my dads experiences. He was a highly decorated WW2 combat vet and definitely one of the Greatest Generation. He's long gone.

    • @bazinga9473
      @bazinga9473 Год назад +2

      @@vince1638 🙏🇺🇸

  • @Dina52328
    @Dina52328 2 года назад +14

    Such a shame people were not interested in buying the beautiful and intricate woodwork of the house when it was being demolished. There was no appreciation for that type of skilled craftsmanship. Nowadays, when people want to buy period moldings and/or woodwork to decorate their homes, it’s practically non-existent, , or very expensive, or buy fake reproductions made out of hard foam. I’ve seen them at the big hardware stores. Once painted, they resemble the real thing. I’m fortunate my Victorian house still had the original woodwork but it was no fun removing over 100 years of paint from all the wood.

    • @LJB103
      @LJB103 2 года назад

      Victorian is now back in style, but unfortunately for years you couldn't give it away.

  • @RADIUMGLASS
    @RADIUMGLASS 2 года назад +19

    John D. Rockefeller had a cousin who was alive into the 1930s, she lived almost as long as he did and she was the splitting image of him. She lived in a simple but quaint bungalow house in the city of Detroit. That particular house was demolished some years back, unfortunately it was the ghetto.

  • @jeffallinson8089
    @jeffallinson8089 2 года назад +25

    Yet another stunning mansion consigned to the pages of history books. This was an excellent video; thank you.

  • @christophermyers3758
    @christophermyers3758 2 года назад +10

    Thank you for this informative video of the John D. Rockefeller townhouse. I also sat in the MOMA sculpture garden for a late Summer afternoon jazz concert. Amazing to realize it was the former site of the townhouse?
    I remember after I left the MOMA, walking to the corner of 54th and Madison, and seeing the Morgan Library with an incredible French Chateau on the opposite corner.
    Great neighborhood! 😊

  • @BradThePitts
    @BradThePitts 2 года назад +30

    Great video. I'm a native New Yorker and to be honest, I didn't know the half of this. My friends across The Pond say that in Europe a home of that caliber would never have been destroyed, despite no one wanting to buy it. Thus more older buildings in European cities.

    • @thedativecase9733
      @thedativecase9733 2 года назад +4

      Here in the UK they were very fond of tearing down beautiful old buildings up until the 1970s. A former boss of mine told me how she and her then boyfriend wagged off school on the day a lovely 16th century half-timbered building in our home town Manchester was being demolished. They just wanted to be there to say good-bye to part of our city's history.

    • @safarygirl
      @safarygirl Год назад +1

      In NY City there are no house Museum’s to visit except for one which has to fight tooth and nail to fight off the Aholes in that city who are dying to “develop” the site. In London there are so many of those house museums. That’s what happens when your city is run by international global types.

    • @jaspervonbach3621
      @jaspervonbach3621 Год назад +1

      @@safarygirl ... "The Frick Collection", Mansion and Museum; 1 East 70th Street, Upper East Side. The most beautiful mansion remaining in the City!

  • @bholmes5490
    @bholmes5490 2 года назад +16

    The children were given an allowance to buy necessities. If they ran out, they ran out. They had to maintain their clothes and learned to sew. When running for President Nelson was teased when getting on a plane his pants had split. A newsman said "There is more showing than your liberalism Governor". On the plane Nelson took off his pants, and sewed them up. It's been said that the family knew how to manage money, and so always kept it. Teaching children to handle money and not just ask for it makes a lot of sense.

  • @madamedelite
    @madamedelite 2 года назад +23

    I have been to the sculpture garden at MoMA many times and didn't realize it was the footprints of this house. And only a quick stroll to Rockefeller Center too. You learn something new each day. Thank you!

    • @furtim1
      @furtim1 Год назад

      Tell me, do those statues come even close to the craftsmanship, beauty, symmetry, and style of the sculptures within the home that decorated the walls, staircases, and mantels? Or, are they dull, lazy, ugly, and talentless hunks of stone/metal that usually qualify as Modern Art sculptures?

  • @vickiephilpitt7697
    @vickiephilpitt7697 2 года назад +34

    I would venture to say the Moorish smoking room simply because it was different plus the fact it was preserved if only in a museum. Too bad no one wanted to salvage the wood but then again "things weren't done that way" much before the 1970's when preservation started to make a lot of historic (cents) sense.

    • @richardflores4560
      @richardflores4560 2 года назад +2

      You said exactly what I was thinking the wood ugh just thrown out

  • @jamesslick4790
    @jamesslick4790 2 года назад +11

    This is my favorite house of the series so far, it's awesome without being "over the top". A classic Victorian city mansion!

  • @gilzor9376
    @gilzor9376 2 года назад +4

    As a person who has had a passion for designing and building wood structures since a child building forts in the woods, (in the 60's) I really enjoy watching these informative brief videos. The historical side of the subject makes it even more interesting for me. To see the old photos and hear about the people who had them built is something one can't easily learn about on their own. Thank you for your interest in producing such videos, I believe it is valuable work. Well done.

  • @StamperWendy
    @StamperWendy 2 года назад +5

    Nice vid! When I hear Flagler, I think of Flagler Beach, FL. Thank you for posting a vid on a Sunday, not many people do. Keep cool!

    • @BIBAH331
      @BIBAH331 2 года назад +2

      Well there is a reason you thought of Flagler Beach, it was named after HENRY FLAGLER, along with John Rockefeller Sr., he was a founder of Standard Oil. As such he had the money and power to have the Atlantic coast of Florida built out . He also owned the Florida East Coast Railway ( which was built through Convict leasing- Prison Wardens made the money off of AFRICAN-AMERICAN prisoners doing the free labor to build the infrastructure ) Flagler was the founder of the cities of Miami, and Palm Beach. Keeping in mind that all of the building of Flagler’s tourist empire was throughout many years exclusively used two VERY BRUTAL LABOR SYSTEMS that ONLY affected AFRICAN-AMERICANS Boys & Men as slaves without calling it SLAVERY ! Over 4,000 HUMAN BEINGS of AFRICAN DESCENT built all of Miami, and Flagler’s properties all over south Florida ! Even when this was found out , Flagler used his wealth and the like mindedness of fellow white men to ensure the successfully erase any stigma or hint of scandal by lobbying in Congress and using the media (Flagler’s own newspapers to quell the alarm of his INHUMAN JUSTIFICATION !) MRS. E.E. ZAYAS 331

  • @Hballbiscuit
    @Hballbiscuit 2 года назад +29

    I believe the home was owned by Arabella Huntington (The mistress of Collis P Huntington) before John D. Rockefeller bought it. The dressing room was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of art.

    • @frenchartantiquesparis424
      @frenchartantiquesparis424 2 года назад

      Mistress turned Wife.

    • @tam7509
      @tam7509 2 года назад

      R u talking about the Huntington’s who used to be like the Walton’s coz they used to own the A&P stores

    • @frenchartantiquesparis424
      @frenchartantiquesparis424 2 года назад +1

      @@tam7509 The Huntingtons were one of the 4 families that built the Railroads.

    • @tam7509
      @tam7509 2 года назад

      @@frenchartantiquesparis424 oh okay cool. I didn’t know about the ones who built a railroad empire just the ones who built the retail empire

  • @LJB103
    @LJB103 2 года назад +17

    Enjoyable video.
    The picture of Maurice B. Clark is not Rockefeller's partner, but John Maurice Clark. Junior had the house torn down for MOMA (his wife Abby was a co-founder). The person who had the house remodeled for herself and then sold it to Rockefeller was quite a character: Arabella Worsham. She was never married to Worsham but her "late husband" helped explain her child (probably Worsham's). Then she was the mistress of Collis P Huntington; then his second wife.; then his widow. She got 1/3 of his estate; her son got a chunk; and his nephew, Henry, got the rest. Then she married Henry (about the same age as she was)!! She and Henry created the magnificent estate and gardens of San Marino in Pasadena, CA. By the way, John Sr. did not become a billionaire until Standard Oil was broken up: he realized that the parts would be worth more individually than as a whole. Flagler is the one who thought up the idea of a Trust to hold companies in different states. Both San Marino and Flagler's Whitehall would make great videos.

    • @243wayne1
      @243wayne1 2 года назад

      Yes. We know. Thank you.

    • @UncaDave
      @UncaDave 2 года назад +1

      Plus Flagler developed the Florida east coast and the Keys as a destination. Many of his buildings still stand, i.e. Flagler College and more.

    • @LJB103
      @LJB103 2 года назад +3

      @@UncaDave Even having toured Biltmore, Flagler's Whitehall in Palm Beach is my pick for a knock your socks off mansion.

    • @UncaDave
      @UncaDave 2 года назад

      @@LJB103 I agree. Plus Flagler is really a much more interesting fellow to read about. The man had vision for sure. The stories of land speculators and developers in Florida is fascinating. Even building roads and bridges in that hostile swamp environment. Read about the Tamiami Trail that Collier built across the Everglades even using something called a “walking dredge”. One is still on exhibit at the Collier-Seminole SP.

  • @baffledanderanged2101
    @baffledanderanged2101 2 года назад +7

    Thank you for the tour. Nice to know that some items from the Rockefeller house were saved before it was demolished. It was hard to pick a favorite room. 😁💝

  • @janefitzgibbon4312
    @janefitzgibbon4312 2 года назад +6

    Enjoy your stories so much. 👍🏼

  • @bobeg749
    @bobeg749 Год назад +2

    The bedroom from the Rockefeller house is preserved in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The “Moorish” Smoking Room is preserved in the Brooklyn Museum. The small dressing room is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  • @waterbuck
    @waterbuck 2 года назад +10

    The work you must put into these videos to get this kind of descriptive and visual detail is mind blowing.

  • @markw999
    @markw999 Год назад +2

    1:28 -- Wow, that's a clan, isn't it? You gotta wonder how shallow that gene pool might have been.

  • @clairwaucaush7225
    @clairwaucaush7225 2 года назад +132

    What a great house. Too bad it was demolished. At least a couple rooms were saved, that's better than most houses like this. The kids of people like this MUST be spoiled, aside from what they said. The house was 'outdated'. In England you have families who are still in homes handed down several hundred years. They don't say they're 'outdated'.

    • @phileeepaye1641
      @phileeepaye1641 2 года назад +5

      Well thanks for ruining the video!

    • @trismegistus2881
      @trismegistus2881 2 года назад +11

      There was a time period after WW2 during which most Europeans also believed buildings from this era to be 'outdated.' They generally lacked central heating and other modern necessities, so they were often demolished. Such buildings were apparently not considered to be works of art. It is hard to understand.

    • @TheAnimeist
      @TheAnimeist 2 года назад +4

      It doesn't mean you're spoiled. It just means you must have another house to live in.

    • @scotishjohn
      @scotishjohn Год назад

      True

    • @wisdomseekertv
      @wisdomseekertv Год назад +3

      @@phileeepaye1641 I think your logic is flawed. No big deal. Just: you should be intelligent enough to understand that the comment section will tell you peoples views on the content in the very clip you want to watch. If you read the comment section before finishing the clip - it's your own fault that the content was spoiled for you. Rarely do I comment on comments - but this one was just too illogical for me to not take note of. Well done! You managed to make a complete stranger take the time to lecture you on something you should definitely know before commenting such nonsense as you did. Have a good day and please don't keep at this behaviour. Revolting.

  • @katrinascreationscrafting
    @katrinascreationscrafting 2 года назад +11

    This was very interesting. John, Sr.'s son, John Jr. was married to a distant relative of mine, Abbie Aldrich Rockefeller.

    • @a1wend1l
      @a1wend1l 2 года назад +1

      Me too!

    • @katrinascreationscrafting
      @katrinascreationscrafting 2 года назад +2

      @@a1wend1l We're probably cousins somehow.

    • @katrinascreationscrafting
      @katrinascreationscrafting 2 года назад +1

      We probably are. Our branch of the family had 8 children, whose names spelled out Aldrichs. My grandfather was the D - Delbert.

  • @theresawilson2647
    @theresawilson2647 2 года назад +4

    I can never pick my favorite room in these videos. I love them all.

  • @bricktrooper462
    @bricktrooper462 2 года назад +7

    The saddest part is the property was never used for another dwelling, meaning it never really needed to be demolished in the first place =(

  • @greeneyedwarlock882
    @greeneyedwarlock882 2 года назад +7

    JUST LOOK AT THOSE FOREVER FORLORN FACES. EVEN AS CHILDREN. How miserably unhappy they appeared.......tragic!

  • @sunspiral79
    @sunspiral79 2 года назад +3

    Wow...that atrium was breathtaking
    Once again.... brilliant content
    Thank you Sir
    You should consider Casa Loma in Toronto for video

  • @jerishuntington7202
    @jerishuntington7202 2 года назад +7

    This house was actually designed, built and furnished by our #HuntingtonFamily under the auspices of Arabella Huntington (Collis Huntington's second wife) who was responsible for selling the home to John D. Rockefeller, complete with all of its furnishings for a breath taking price for the era. Arabella had a robust real estate portfolio during the course of her marriages to Collis and Henry Edward Huntington (Collis' nephew) which left her independently wealthy. We are thankful that two of the rooms have been preserved in their entirety and are housed at museums.

    • @empirestateconstructionllc2336
      @empirestateconstructionllc2336 Год назад +3

      That is amazing and so cool your family created that master piece !!

    • @jaspervonbach3621
      @jaspervonbach3621 Год назад +3

      Are you from the same Huntington Family associated with The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California?

    • @jerishuntington7202
      @jerishuntington7202 Год назад +2

      @@jaspervonbach3621 Yes

  • @Jamieprv
    @Jamieprv 2 года назад +2

    The floating stairway and balusters are incredible.

  • @robertbangkok
    @robertbangkok 2 года назад +2

    What an amazing report. Thank you for your well researched work.

  • @mileshigh1321
    @mileshigh1321 2 года назад +4

    Anything Moorish! The smoking room is incredible and I am so glad it got saved! Thanks for sharing the history!

  • @bencharlie9509
    @bencharlie9509 Год назад +1

    What’s strange is that Los Angeles still has the Doheny (a rival oil company of the same era) mansion, Greystone. People say LA does not value it’s history as much as New York City. Ironic. The city of Beverly Hills now owns it because like this mansion, no one has been able or willing to purchase and upkeep it.

  • @steved8053
    @steved8053 Год назад +2

    I heard that John D Sr went on an extended road trip with his chauffeur to avoid a Federal subpoena in the antitrust legislation.
    But after John D Jr first child was born, he could not stay away and was served.
    In the aftermath of the antitrust legislation, he was forced to divest his interests, but his net worth went up a lot...

  • @rossrreyes
    @rossrreyes 2 года назад +2

    I’ve sat a enjoyed that present day garden next to the Museum; amazing to think this wonderful house was once there

  • @markrobinson7154
    @markrobinson7154 2 года назад +1

    Love this channel and your videos, but this has been your best to date.

  • @thehornet1975
    @thehornet1975 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great Video. Important to note that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is not there by chance but was founded by John Sr's daughter-in-law, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. John Jr donated his father's land as well as his own.

  • @claudiocavaliere856
    @claudiocavaliere856 2 года назад +2

    Absolutely amazing! So interesting style of life! The house reflects that! Very beautiful!

  • @friendofdorothy9376
    @friendofdorothy9376 2 года назад +4

    I actually liked this house (the kitchen though??). I can totally understand how he bought it furnished and just added some rugs. It seemed warm and inviting and I imagined living there. I don’t think I’ve ever felt quite that way with the other old time-y mansions featured previously (maybe those were too Victorian for me?).

  • @leoperezcomedy
    @leoperezcomedy Год назад +2

    Very enjoyable video. Can you do one of Jr.'s 9 story mansion that was next to Sr.'s. it is shown in photos through out this video.

  • @chancemccloskey5665
    @chancemccloskey5665 Год назад +3

    My grandfather was in the same circles as one of the Rockefellers, and what he always told me was you havnt met true success until you’ve met a Rockefeller

    • @honeststranger1070
      @honeststranger1070 Год назад +1

      Wow that's great...You must be from a rich family

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 10 месяцев назад

      @@honeststranger1070
      It took J.D.R. Sr. a long time
      to be really rich. They were
      upper-middle class for a
      long time. He didn't become
      a billionaire until his monopoly
      was broken up.
      He grew up very poor, and
      worked his whole life until
      his oldest son took over
      the businesses and set
      up trusts. He also worked
      his way through a business
      school (sometimes these
      places called themselves
      "colleges") while supporting
      his mother and siblings
      It took two generations
      before the Vanderbilts
      were really rich. The
      third and fourth generations
      were the ones who spent
      all of the money.

  • @romanr9977
    @romanr9977 2 года назад

    Wow, that Moorish smoking room !! The blue velvet curtains contrasting with the wood- divine ✨ 💙

  • @killerfrank8974
    @killerfrank8974 Год назад +3

    A beautiful home, and to think, it was one of modest houses of that neighborhood; makes me wonder what the other houses on the block looked like on the inside!

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 10 месяцев назад

      I don't think that it is very much
      different from the van Rhijin
      residence in the current "The
      Gilded Age" (TV/mini-series)

  • @americanlibertyrights
    @americanlibertyrights 2 года назад +1

    we actually have a close friend to our company whose parents came to america coming in first from canada and then crossed the canadian river by foot and gained a really good loan at a very good interest rate. he's in his 80's now, but he remembers the very low price they got the loan for from blessed be his memory, mr rockefeller. They also gave out most loans and charities during the great depression.The oil where he'd lower his prices so low to help them is exactly how we all remember him in

  • @lizlittle1641
    @lizlittle1641 2 года назад +2

    I really liked the parlor and kitchen. The parlor was just beautiful. The kitchen was so rustic.

  • @scottweeks6379
    @scottweeks6379 2 года назад +2

    So very sad that the house was torn down. Wow....What a beautiful home.....

  • @Irish420Artist
    @Irish420Artist 2 года назад +1

    Fantatsic video. Well put together with a mix of his life and how he lived.

  • @chrisflores4788
    @chrisflores4788 10 месяцев назад +1

    Do you have any videos of famous houses outside the US? I would really like to see your take on the many Renaissance homes in Florence (the exterior of the Carnegie home reminded me a bit of the Riccardi Medici palazzo).

  • @videoprotectedcom
    @videoprotectedcom 2 года назад +3

    Thank You, for enriching us with your videos. Much appreciated. Hey who needs elaborate housing, we gots sheet rock (boring). No more craftsmanship.

  • @missjody5803
    @missjody5803 Год назад

    What an amazing building, I hope someone buys and restores this home. ❤️

  • @hangin-in-thereawesome4245
    @hangin-in-thereawesome4245 Год назад +2

    What an awesome home!

  • @katesutton1476
    @katesutton1476 2 года назад +1

    Great story. Never heard it before. Thx 4 the hx lesson.

    • @marymannion4445
      @marymannion4445 Год назад

      For a more detailed description of his life, read “ the titan” by rod chernow. Great history of the oil business.

  • @jimwiskus8862
    @jimwiskus8862 2 года назад +1

    My faves are the 2 rooms disassembled & then reassembled in the museum’s.

  • @windwhipped5
    @windwhipped5 2 года назад +5

    Interesting that he had to succum to his farhers ways intitially, to get ahead, but then went to back to his mothers way of thinking later in life.

  • @Gjm1986
    @Gjm1986 Год назад +1

    @ThisHouse the kitchen picture @8:14 is upside down!!!!!

  • @wdgbirmingham2
    @wdgbirmingham2 2 года назад +1

    At 2:11, the photo of Maurice Clark? You preface it by saying in 1859 he joined forces with Maurice Clark. That photo looks more like 1959, not 1859

  • @borntoraisehell5353
    @borntoraisehell5353 2 года назад +4

    They were wealthy but, they didn't look like they were happy at all!💯% 🥺

  • @denisehorner8448
    @denisehorner8448 6 месяцев назад +1

    It's not wrought with waste, but 'fraught' with waste, meaning that it's full of it. Not used very often anymore. 😢

  • @carolynnixon7095
    @carolynnixon7095 2 года назад

    The atrium is my favorite room but the spacious bedroom is pleasing too.

  • @TravelingMan63
    @TravelingMan63 Год назад +1

    He also owned a modest small home on Cleveland’s Millionaire Row (Euclid Ave). It was located on the south side of Euclid Ave which was one step down from the huge stone mansions that lined the north side of Euclid Ave. his home was eventually town down when commercial businesses were built on Millionaire Row in the early 20th century.

    • @bethbartlett5692
      @bethbartlett5692 Год назад

      I have a fondness for Cleveland, particularly, "the Flat's".
      I traveled the US with my job, was born in Chicago, educated in the South, TN, my Dad's home area, grad "University of Memphis" and remain a fan of the Cities that defined the USA, they each have their own, very American flavor ...
      Have friends from Cleveland area, Irish and Italian, love both, the latter have businesses in Las Vegas, I lived there 17 years.
      Best Thoughts ...

  • @blackbrownbeige55
    @blackbrownbeige55 2 года назад +1

    Incredible story and home. Very well done

  • @DarthV3622Fkm
    @DarthV3622Fkm Год назад +1

    It is estimated that at his peak Rockefeller net worth is about 3 to 5% of US GDP. Using the current US GDP that put his wealth at around $690 B to $1.1 Trillion. His wealth dwarf any current billionaire on earth.
    But Junior, Rockefeller's son, gave away a lot of his wealth. Junior in particular contributed a lot in creating the Acadia and Grand Teton National Parks.
    Rockefeller is a controversial figure. But you can't deny him making a much longer lasting positive impact than many robber barons of his time.

  • @Ramcharger85
    @Ramcharger85 6 месяцев назад

    If it had a library, that would be my favorite room. 😊

  • @charlesamitchem3487
    @charlesamitchem3487 2 года назад +1

    The photo of Maurice B. Clark is actually of another gentleman.

  • @lisakennett7966
    @lisakennett7966 2 года назад +1

    Stunning 💗 Just Stunning 💖

  • @missyrose2154
    @missyrose2154 5 месяцев назад

    Still can’t believe they didn’t preserve this house as a historic site

  • @tdecker2937
    @tdecker2937 Год назад

    Great video!

  • @ms.donaldson2533
    @ms.donaldson2533 2 года назад

    I'm a Native of Baltimore, where the Rockefeller Standard Oil Building houses the Greek Gods that were raised during the Jesuit "Death to the Old Gods" Jubilee of 1906 and where Rockefeller Public Health in the Middle East of Baltimore arrived one year before it's sister in Jerusalem.

  • @BLOXKAFELLARECORDS
    @BLOXKAFELLARECORDS Год назад +1

    I met Thomas Edison and Rockefeller.
    I was a young kid.

  • @christopherd.1200
    @christopherd.1200 2 года назад +1

    Hello-
    it seems the grand homes of Olde New York most at risk were those right on or quite close to 5th Ave.

  • @saipuakivikaupias
    @saipuakivikaupias 2 года назад +2

    So sad to lose yet another NYC treasure. Happy that at least a few rooms were spared.

  • @GregNBiloxi
    @GregNBiloxi 2 года назад +1

    John Rockefeller's country house was on a large estate about 25 miles from the city with a 40 room mansion. John Jr had a 20,000 sq ft apartment with 37 rooms.

    • @LJB103
      @LJB103 2 года назад

      He had several others. One was in Cleveland and the one in Ormond Beach, FL where he died.

    • @kathiandres1985
      @kathiandres1985 2 года назад +1

      I lived down the street from their home in Tarrytown New York@

  • @joesmith9216
    @joesmith9216 Год назад +1

    you people don't understand, they have DIRECT contact with SA-TON, look at that house!!!!

  • @Suntan38
    @Suntan38 2 года назад +1

    This is absolutely crazy that his wife and kids had to maintain that house! That's a full time job. It was a beautiful home

    • @cookoutdoor881
      @cookoutdoor881 2 года назад

      Absolutely crazy become all owners and - even worse their children - when living in such places, and doing nothing for this, even some minor chores. Sure you can do this, but it is contrary to human nature. The price for doing the wrong thing can not be escaped. Just recall children raised and living in similar environments how they become…

    • @ericwsmith7722
      @ericwsmith7722 2 года назад +4

      The children did chores,,,,, but there was a large staff to do anything else that needed to be done, Put it this way, by ww-2 started the Rockefellers had an office staff of about 700 people that did nothing but attend to the charitable arm of the family, taxes and personal expenses and trust funds of the grown children . It boggles the mind to need that many people to manage your money, something "normal people" take a couple hours a week on the kitchen table doing

  • @LifeAdviceSite
    @LifeAdviceSite 2 года назад +7

    Demolished?! 😳 My first instinct is - that’s crime against history - but given that it was used for charitable organizations, maybe it wasn’t in good condition at the time?

  • @chuckandmax7313
    @chuckandmax7313 2 года назад +5

    I love the Moorish Smoking Room with its beautiful black lacquer woodwork and the truly unique moldings at the ceiling, I also love the open fret work in the arch surround of the bedroom. The kitchen is so humble and has paint peeling off the walls, such a stark contrast to the splendor of the rest of the house.
    Once again we see a fabulous gilded age mansion being left to the owners children, who see no value in the property and have it bulldozed, the thought of all that beautiful woodwork being demolished just makes me sick. To make things even more disturbing is to have the property turned into a garden walkway, when they could have built something remarkable on the highly coveted real estate.
    I guess if I were one of his children and the only thing that I inherited was a partial share of a 4 story mansion, I would probably try to sell it off as well, the thought that their father was a billionaire and they didn’t inherit a fortune is really sad, and it must have been hard for them to grow up in the extreme wealth of the noble elites and be responsible for doing household chores while their contemporaries were waited on hand and foot by a calvalcade of servants. Poor Mrs Rockefeller being laden down with cooking and dish washing in that run down kitchen, she was practically worked to death. To think that the elites were dining on oysters Rockefeller named after the richest man in the country while probably never having had any for themselves. Also, how many richest men in the country were there, every episode tells the story of the wealthiest person in America, I suppose these were all for different years throughout the gilded age.
    Your fans ChuckandMax

  • @TheLemon333
    @TheLemon333 2 года назад +3

    I think It would be nice to get some bias here and there. Many of these people did horrible things to come out on top like they did. It wasn't all bootstraps folks!

  • @hernandoarce5804
    @hernandoarce5804 Год назад +1

    Do a video on J.P. Morgan library on 39st

  • @stuffchat
    @stuffchat Год назад +2

    Dunno why but I'm thinking conspiracy theory. Notice how ALL (except some ;) ) of these beautiful mansions were completely wiped off the face of the earth and replaced with unremarkable garbage. Really, NOBODY thought a thing of beauty was a joy that needed to be saved?

  • @carlbusque1856
    @carlbusque1856 2 года назад

    Love your work, thanks!

  • @markwriter2698
    @markwriter2698 6 месяцев назад

    Not only were these wonderful palaces too expensive to maintain. The taxes were unbelievable and they typically didn’t have electricity unless it was added later. Last but not least, the houses on millionaires row became surrounded by tall buildings and noise which made living there undesirable. Most were torn down and replaced by tall buildings.

  • @pmm3112
    @pmm3112 2 года назад

    Awesome Video!!😄

  • @mrjolieguy8673
    @mrjolieguy8673 2 года назад +2

    4:32 the reptile features showing up on the older he got

  • @NewTheoryMagazine
    @NewTheoryMagazine 2 года назад

    New subscriber 💯🍿

  • @trae3290
    @trae3290 2 года назад +1

    Is there any more houses like this or it’s architectural style? This seems bigger than normal brownstones

  • @xeriscapeguy
    @xeriscapeguy 2 года назад

    Excellent commentary.

  • @darrenwatters8129
    @darrenwatters8129 Год назад

    I adore these videos

  • @sian2337
    @sian2337 Год назад +1

    The smoking room is beautiful.

  • @bmp456
    @bmp456 Год назад

    The Bedroom has been at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond for many years.

  • @johnengland8619
    @johnengland8619 2 года назад

    Thanks again for the content

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 Год назад

    *"Rolaids may be required":*
    Victorians were like "a buffet of foods, rich in cream sauces, butter, with high carb dumplings, noodles, and various meats, marbeled with fats that required condiments thick with salts and vinegars, followed by a dessert course that was layers of cakes, each filled with Whipped Heavy Cream, Butter and Sugar Sauces, topped with Candied Cherries, ... upon completion of a multiple course dinner + desserts, the images of which flowing through the mind, give risw to that feeling of:
    *"Overindulgence "*
    *"This is the very picture, flavor,and experience of "Victorian Decor", (particularly in an Mansion of the era), as experienced live, in person."*
    Is there any wonder *"Why?" Frank Lloyd Wright called Interior Decorators: "Inferior Desecrators "?*
    (Like all were poor and had winfalls, overindulging in displays of wealth, without time to learn of value in design, art, and Mature Mindedness. ... an observation, rather than judgemental.)
    I rest my perspective and point ...
    Best Clear Thoughts and Delicious Designs ...
    Beth

  • @raeannuria5691
    @raeannuria5691 2 года назад

    Awesome Video!

  • @JimmyCall
    @JimmyCall 2 года назад +3

    Crazy how these types of homes are destroy and not replaced with similar or better. The excuse, so called "out dated" but they replace with with nothing.

    • @jamesclendon4811
      @jamesclendon4811 2 года назад +2

      The Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art is hardly "nothing." It's part of a world-renowned institution, one of the jewels of New York City, much more significant than the large but rather mundane house that was torn down.

  • @gracemercy5825
    @gracemercy5825 Год назад +1

    The best part…. Not a Tv in the entire place

  • @darrenforest1492
    @darrenforest1492 2 года назад

    Wow. Cheers from Australia

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 Год назад

    Why would that house be outdated only 20 years after it was built? I think it's beautiful!

  • @paulmezhir8354
    @paulmezhir8354 2 года назад +1

    What a gorgeous home! The austere external appearance is a perfect foil for the magnificently detailed Victorian interiors. I would prefer this type of home over the nearby gilded mansions of the pretentious New York elite.

  • @waltvancourt5052
    @waltvancourt5052 Год назад +1

    The great men who built America

  • @saragianettitamargo990
    @saragianettitamargo990 2 года назад +3

    Gentle correction: the molding style is pronounced “den-till,” not “den-teel.” Thank you for your videos.

    • @North49191
      @North49191 2 года назад

      thanks know it all

    • @Earthmunky
      @Earthmunky 2 года назад

      Haha I didn’t catch the mispronunciation myself

  • @MarlieAstra
    @MarlieAstra Год назад +2

    What a tragedy to have such a beautiful place destroyed.

  • @ericwsmith7722
    @ericwsmith7722 2 года назад

    A nice little shack in town to hang his hat in, When you have a few estates, ( Clevland OH, Sag Harbor MI. and Pontico in upstate NY all with 1000+ acres, each, I guess you can "slum it" in the city