Tour Clayton, the Gilded Age home of the Henry Clay Frick family

[@seattlebeard]

I stood alone in the bedroom of one of the biggest Union busters in history. The tour moved on to his wife's bedroom. I touched one of his hairbrushes with the tip of my finger. It was chilling. The house was lovely. I felt sad that all the beauty around me was acquired on the backs of working people.

[@rosalieG-n3s]

It provided needed jobs. That’s a good thing. And ANYONE that wants to be rich in this country - there’s nothing stopping you.

[@JK-lp6uw]

Most everything is built on the backs of "working "people. That's an ignorant comment. Sounds as though you are envious, jealous. Not everyone is or strives so hard to be well to do. Not everyone can, nor ever will.

[@myrnajucar3498]

Thank you so much for this virtual tour. It is a good idea you have thought of for us who are in other countries and cannot afford a personal tour.

[@sandypompilii6901]

Amazingly beautiful

[@rgrndu]

House is frickin’ beautiful! The story about the steel mill reminded me of the 1945 movie The Valley of Decision.

[@MrBNARick]

I love all the "hater" comments about extravagant wealth with total and complete disregard for the REALITY that had it not been for these Industrial Titans and financiers... America would Not BE WHAT IT IS TODAY. All you see is wealth and completely disregard the contribution that these men made. Also, when you talk about extreme wealth, remember there was no personal income tax in this Country when these men BECAME wealthy.

[@beautysurroundings5055]

Total agree. The people that have this kind of complain just ignore the history and the foundation of our today world. Just fools !

[@JK-lp6uw]

Nancy. Hit that dead on! I agree.

[@venus_envy]

The people we should actually thank for all that building of America is the. workers he had shot, they did the actual work, this fat ass piece of shit just separated them from the suits of their labour, and then massacred them. Some hero you have, you must be fun at parties. Remember, the degenerate rich human sacks of trash at the heads of these companies don't get their hands dirty or do any actual work, it's the people below them that make 5000% less in wages that actual make anything possible. Without workers Frick would be a nobody, he's a useless cow pat and for what he did to those people, he's probably burning in hell as we speak.

[@akacheddarmountain]

🤣🤣🤣 and tell us how you feel about slavery

[@maggiemae7539]

You can have all the money and be spiritually bankrupt!

[@williamkimmer6221]

Such style/ class

[@craigparham7992]

WOW Beautiful

[@cigarcatfromwayback...lets380]

You realize how much money he had to have to STILL have something like this functional today!

[@davidweihe6052]

No really. President Rutherford B. Hayes had a similar-sized house in Ohio, with as much furniture and furnishings preserved.

[@tonyshumway7652]

Yes what i read about Henry Frick he was so ruthless and quite the lack of morality which he was long vilified by the public and historians this was also the subject of a tv series called The Men who Built America also by his critics Frick was one of the hated men in America.

[@maggiebugden9463]

Interesting.thank you!!

[@kellymurray8403]

we went here for field trip it was awesome

[@hattiem.7966]

I was in Pittsburgh recently but didn't see this home.What part of the city is it in?

[@andytaylor5476]

Point Breeze which is not far from Oakland.

[@georgemersu1499]

Yes, Point Breeze. Right on Penn Ave.

[@georgemersu1499]

Point Breeze is right next to Wilkinsburg and Homewood and East liberty.

[@donnadimeo]

I encourage you to read about Clay! Look up the Johnstown Flood, and the Homestead Strike. The guy was evil

[@bogmon34]

He probably in charge of Hell now

[@lespangen]

Well he was assassinated reportedly causing anti U ion sentiment as a result

[@Mfl.8580]

Mil gracias. Muy interesante relato..

[@ritabiro5105]

It is beautiful

[@lewis7315]

Beautiful house ... thing is those gilded age industrialists were ruthless people who were responsible for all kinds of horror against the ordinary people.... It is amazeing that more of them were not killed by some of their victims ... Calling a person an Anarchist misses the important point that revolutions are usually justifiable reactions to abuse and terror...

[@ucebuflash]

5:50 No...send stimulating streams of water...RIGHT UP YER 'ARRIS

[@Irishmahn87]

What’s the organ device in the parlor called? I cannot seem to recall

[@mistrcoffe]

Orchestrion. It was a self playing organ

[@cwb0051]

Boy, They Sure Knew How To Live..

[@gloriahanes6490]

6:44 a French Jumeau doll exclusively owned by a special child of privilege.

[@mommycatwhisperer9538]

I feel like I died and went to HEAVEN!!

[@maggiemae7539]

Not even close to Heaven!

[@huntersun9]

Johnstown Flood.

[@victoriav8124]

Exactly!!...I wonder if they mention the Johnstown Flood when they give tours of this home!

[@jesseleeward2359]

Why did wealthy Americans imitate the British nobility when they could buy them out of house and home? A sense of inferiority? A sense of status? It still comes across as slightly cheesey. THere are country clubs that are like this today, very cheesey in an American context for some reason.

[@rgrndu]

You really like cheese.

[@venus_envy]

I think they did feel inferior, hence the rush to traffic their daughters over to penniless English aristocrats as "dollar princesses", just so they could essentially buy a title for their family. It was really quite pathetic, as was a lot of the other things they did, like massacring workers.

[@maggiemae7539]

They were the same!

[@THER4PROJECT]

You must be a relative of Henry's. LOL

[@janethockey9070]

Homestead Plant is torn down.

[@THER4PROJECT]

LOL -- Great pay for that time. 1.00. Wow! Damn lets build a rocketship! -- also, I don't necessarily like "unions." But I most certainly don't like acts of the devil, like greed and "power".

[@janethockey9070]

THER4PROJECT Killing 20 folks at Homestead

[@venus_envy]

Back when there were unions, in the 40s/50s/60s, there were living wages and the buying power of a dollar, even adjusting for inflation, was a lot higher then than it was today. What my dad could buy with a dollar compared to what I can buy, was a lot more. Now wages are way behind cost of living and buying power is at an all-time low in most developed western countries. Yeah, unions sure are awful though, hope we don't bring them back, wouldn't want people to be fairly compensated and be able to afford basic needs like food and shelter on one job. Really, it's for the best that people en masse are deciding not to have kids because it's too expensive even with two professional salaries. There are too many people on this planet anyway, you know?