The Many Mansions of Henry Clay Frick: Eagle Rock (Part 2)

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  • Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
  • Imagine spending millions of dollars on a house that you hate. Today, we are exploring eagle rock in part 2 of the many mansions of Henry Frick.
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    Historic Photos of the Clayton mansion: Courtesy of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.
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Комментарии • 43

  • @trj1442
    @trj1442 2 года назад +19

    Excellent episode. Cudos to Frick's daughter. She seemed like a very benevolent, caring person, a lot different from her father.

    • @mollyrectenwald559
      @mollyrectenwald559 2 года назад +1

      I grew up across the street from the clayton mansion (I did not live in a mansion lol) and had many many childhood and adolescent adventures in frick park. Its my happy place, thanks to helen!

  • @paco7992
    @paco7992 2 года назад +15

    You are becoming one of the best channels out there for history. It is interesting to see history through the prism of the architecture they created and destroyed. Thank you... Oh and I really like the length!

  • @sunspiral79
    @sunspiral79 2 года назад +5

    The content on this channel is second to none.... Another brilliant video Sir

  • @p.mckenzie2921
    @p.mckenzie2921 2 года назад +8

    I really like this three-part series and can’t wait for the third part. I hope you have a blessed day Ken.😇😊

  • @tudorjason
    @tudorjason 2 года назад +11

    The Frick Manhattan mansion is one of the preeminent mansions in the city.
    I'm really lookin forward to the last episode in this series.

  • @LJB103
    @LJB103 2 года назад +8

    The stables/carriage house looks like a mansion itself and is now 5 large condos! Unfortunately, most of the very large mansions in Massachusetts are gone - but luckily not all. Good video.

  • @desertsunman5880
    @desertsunman5880 2 года назад +3

    Great story - sad that in '69 we lost another piece of Art - a beautiful dwelling 😉😎

  • @charpnatl
    @charpnatl 2 года назад +8

    My question is this, during that period of architecture did “ stark modern “ exist anywhere other than public places? Was it being applied to luxury residential properties? This three part series is really building up my excitement for part three. Well Done !

  • @danielintheantipodes6741
    @danielintheantipodes6741 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for the video.

  • @christopherkraft1327
    @christopherkraft1327 2 года назад +1

    It sounds like Frick was quite a piece of work!!! This mansion is stunning!!! I look forward to seeing part 3!!! 👍👍🙂

  • @sashaconrad3939
    @sashaconrad3939 2 года назад +3

    Helen Frick was a very special person.

    • @andreamurphy1126
      @andreamurphy1126 2 года назад +3

      Except, she Annihilated part of US History by tearing down her mansion. What a waste.

  • @kellingtonlink956
    @kellingtonlink956 2 года назад +2

    I know that the story is about to get even more interesting. Mr. Frick was an absolutely fascinating American industrialist. (Please note…, I never said he was a great industrialist or individual… just fascinating). Thanks for the video.

  • @MrBNARick
    @MrBNARick 2 года назад +3

    "Tax burden became to much" ROFLMAO Helen Frick was an incredibly wealthy woman up to the day she died. My sister was one of her nurses at Clayton up to her death and I can assure you she was not hurting for money.

  • @andrewbrendan1579
    @andrewbrendan1579 2 года назад +3

    How could there be such a lack of communication that a palatial house was built when it was the opposite of what was wanted? The house that was built makes me think of an enlarged, more ornate version of the White House in Washington, D.C. but without the white paint that covers the stone walls.

  • @lizlittle1641
    @lizlittle1641 2 года назад

    I agree with Henry that the dining room is the nicest because it was simple

  • @lizlittle1641
    @lizlittle1641 2 года назад +4

    I've read The Johnstown Flood. I think they were very irresponsible and should have admitted fault. Such a sad story.

  • @JTThunderBOS
    @JTThunderBOS 2 года назад

    Well you have answered my question to "What is behind that fence and gates on Hale Street?" Too bad the house is no longer there, and sadly another landmark right next door ( Charles G Loring House by William Ralph Emerson) was destroyed only a few years ago.

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett5692 2 года назад

    I avoid the urge to judge, but can say, Frick was a piece of work, he became the most despised man in the country. What was Carnegie thinking?
    That flood was horrific.

    • @raise_the_black_flag
      @raise_the_black_flag 3 месяца назад

      There is research out recently (and an article in the Atlantic profiling the head researcher) that accumulation of unimaginable power for an individual person causes disordered thoughts and antisocial behaviors equivalent to having a steel rod lodged in your skull in a specific part of your brain, between the prefrontal cortex and amygdala. Brain scans of these individuals indicated extreme differential function of those two areas of the brain compared to control samples- which control emotional processing and social cognition. Power, especially extreme power, was also a predictor of endocrinal and physiological changes, specifically unusually high levels of testosterone and low levels of cortisol (the stress hormone). Too much testosterone and not enough cortisol is a reliable predictor for narcissistic behaviors at a level qualifying as NPD- this is not a diagnostic tool, as using physiological tests to predict/diagnose psychological/personality disorders is to rub shoulders with eugenics. It merits mentioning, though. Source: "On Power and its Corrupting Effects," Tobore Onojighofia Tobore 2023.

  • @ThomasELeClair
    @ThomasELeClair 11 месяцев назад

    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Major history in this video...................Things that should never be lost........................

  • @debrapearson4571
    @debrapearson4571 2 года назад

    Helen was a noble lady

  • @jeffreysmall8902
    @jeffreysmall8902 2 года назад +3

    Tells you even back then if you have money you cover up what you did wrong

  • @lindafurr2404
    @lindafurr2404 2 года назад +5

    Henry Clay Frick must have been a horrible person.

  • @skpjoecoursegold366
    @skpjoecoursegold366 2 года назад +1

    can you give us an idea of those taxes that needed to be paid?

    • @raise_the_black_flag
      @raise_the_black_flag 3 месяца назад

      No matter how much tax the wealthy pay, it will always be too much according to them. The US has historically low high-wealth taxes for the modern era (which I'll define as the beginning of the period that the government rendered the amount of services rendered and infrastructure built and maintained- the last time high income bracket tax rates were this low, other than the Reagan period of the modern era, the government did not maintain nearly 900 military bases in about 80 countries, much less subsidize over 63% of durable goods corporations in the country with taxpayer money via military contracts to maintain a cushion beneath the economy to keep it afloat- effectively redistributing wealth from the poor and especially the middle class to the richest 1%, especially the top half of that percent). However, if you listen to the Heritage Institute or any of the "think tank" octopus arms it controls, we should lower taxes on the rich even more so that everyone pays 10% or 15% no matter how differently the system benefits them (especially since the gutting of the social safety net to the point that multi-millionaire Brett Favre can scam millions from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to build a volleyball stadium at the school he sent his daughter to while actual food-insecure families often struggle to access it in many states- guess which ones- because so many of the funds are given out to often middle class or wealthy people through the grant program that Reagan introduced- Last Week Tonight did an episode on TANF that explains this in detail and is still hilarious somehow).
      Sorry for writing a book, had too much coffee and got myself worked up, haha.

  • @esteban1487
    @esteban1487 2 года назад +1

    Many mansions. A different time.

  • @muliefriend4785
    @muliefriend4785 2 года назад +1

    Sounds like Henry was sentenced to living in his guilted prison.

  • @reneesmith6773
    @reneesmith6773 2 года назад +2

    Great history presentation 👏, Frick was not an honorable man.

  • @brianburkhart8676
    @brianburkhart8676 2 года назад +1

    I enjoy the episodes of This House, however Ken narrates too fast and the showings blur by so rapidly that I can't soak it in!!!

  • @ladyjane9980
    @ladyjane9980 2 года назад

    South Fork did not build the dam. They were responsible for the upkeep of the dam. That was the first to fail, and right after that, the South Fork Fishing And Hunting Club.

  • @asylumlover
    @asylumlover Год назад +1

    SO, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE THREE FRICK PROPERTIES TO BE DEMOLISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ALSO DIDN'T REALIZE HOW CORRUPT HE WAS UNTIL NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN ANY CASE, WISH WE STILL HAD EAGLE ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ropeburnsrussell
    @ropeburnsrussell 2 года назад +3

    Magnificent homes brought down by taxes.

  • @marquiesriley6479
    @marquiesriley6479 2 года назад +1

    Shot twice and stabbed five times…good lord, talk about survival of the fittest…

  • @beerybill
    @beerybill 2 года назад

    Right of the bat, Pittsburgh is spelled incorrectly and Frick did not found South Fork.

    • @johnmills34YT
      @johnmills34YT 2 года назад

      at the time of the newspaper article, pittsburgh didn't have the 'h'

  • @claudiamann7111
    @claudiamann7111 2 года назад +1

    What a shame. Another beautiful building torn down.