Gilded age mansions interior

The opulent mansion at 854 Fifth Avenue has a long, storied past—one that includes high-society Manhattanites and a faraday cage.

Lynnewood Hall, located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, is a Gilded Age mansion built between 1897 and 1900 for industrialist Peter A.B. Widener. Designed by renowned architect Horace Trumbauer, this 110-room Neoclassical Revival estate is one of the largest surviving Gilded Age mansions in the United States. Widener, a prominent figure in American business and an investor in the Titanic, used Lynnewood Hall to house his extensive art collection. Despite changing ownership and periods of…

The lavish locations featured in the second season of The Gilded Age, which premiered this weekend on HBO, are somehow even more spectacular than the first season. The Gilded Age is a sumptuous period drama set predominantly in New York City, with filming locations all over the East Coast. The Gilded Age was created, produced, and written by Julian Fellowes, who created the smash British hit Downton Abbey, so you’ll recognize some similarities — the drama between “upstairs and downstairs”…

Our 1909 living room, looking into the sun parlor 📸 Photo by Grant Webster for the Wall Street Journal

Various Spaces of The Russell House for HBO's The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age architecture of Stanford White, Richard Morris Hunt, and more can be seen on the new HBO drama about the period

This stunning Gilded Age townhouse is "one of the few remaining and most architecturally intact examples of Gilded Age splendor on the Upper East Side." According to the listing, "the townhouse has approximately 18,000 sq. ft., 8 levels including 6 levels above grade, 28 rooms, 7 bedrooms, 8 baths, 4 powder rooms, and 14 fireplaces." Link in bio for the full listing!