Uncovering A Sugar Magnate's Dark Secrets: Inside His Gilded Age Mansion

Explore the dark history of the Limestone mansion built by wealthy Mexican businessman, Ignacio, on the most premier lot in Mexico City in the 1800s.
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The Tragic Tale of Mexico's Most Eligible Bachelor & His Gilded Age Mansion
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[@ML-xi2rt]

Absolutely fascinating. Your presentations are always excellent and extremely well done! Thanks!

[@SpanishEclectic]

"Muy Chulos & Coquetones". This would have been an unimaginable scandal at the time! There is a lot to unpack in this story, and as you politely stated, additional dark layers to explore. Interesting building. Ground floor stables appear to have been a thing with town homes, there frontage on a major street would be costly. There is definitely French influence in Mexico (Napoleon III, Maxmillian y Carlota, etc.), and much fascinating history. I was struck by the resemblance between the Monaco cousin and the late Prince Rainier. Amada was certainly a beauty, and I'm glad she survived all this turmoil to live a long life.

[@eduardomazariegos1255]

Its nice to see that you are exploring gilded mantions in other countries, there are a lot of them spreading in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Cuba, some of the still on foot; Ignacio´s ending is kind of shocking, sorounded by gossips and sad stories, during the "porfiriato" there where bulited a lot of beutiful mantions all over mexico city. I dont know how much speak spanish but there is a channel called "Canal once" where is a serie call "Mexico en el tiempo" there are a lot of stories about this palaces and mansions on them and there are really well created. Thank You!

[@anthonycalbillo9376]

My family left Mexico at about this time, and my great grandfather had some type of dealings with Pancho Villa.

[@RVA1954]

Great video! There’s a pretty good movie about that incident called ‘Dance of the 41’.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

Their cover got 'blown'!

[@kathleenmartin8334]

You should do a video on the James J Hill house in St Paul, MInnesota. He was 2nd governor of MInnesota and owned many railroads between Chicago and Saint Paul, MInnesota. Plus, the Glenshing Mansion located in Duluth, MInnesota; as well as owned by Mr Congdon, who owned the iron ore mines located along the North Shore of MInnesota along Lake Superior. Iron sore was needed to make steel used by all of the Steel Mills in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

[@melixix3386]

Loved loved loved this video! Thank you for adding this house

[@sprague49]

Check out the 2020 Mexican film, "Dance of the 41"

[@AnnAndNala]

I saw that as well! Good movie, and good episode here. Very interesting story indeed.

[@adelantadodeyucatan3484]

Great video!!!! please check the Braniff mansion in Mexico City from the same era.

[@hv1946FLUSA]

Excellent presentation. Thanks for including it.

[@marciafallon7653]

Ken, I appreciate all of your research and presentations. I look forward to each episode!

[@isabella6206]

Wow makes my tiny flat a bit dull( only joking glad to have a roof over my head!)

[@MachoCool558]

Always amazing. Thank you for your work.

[@cd87104]

dig your style man. i wonder how many of us fans dont look like we would be fans. haha. godspeed.

[@videoprotectedcom]

Gracias amigo, for the great video.

[@isabella6206]

Also even in British Royal family the late Queen and Prince Philip had separate bedrooms.

[@edgarsnake2857]

Good show. Thanks.

[@Donald_Shaw]

Thank you Ken for another fabulous video highlighting gilded age mansions and the people who had them built.

[@robertoreza7399]

Now that you're talking about Mexico, you can make a video of the Quintas Gamero, the house still stands.

[@cesarvilchis4217]

Quinta Gameros

[@amitisshahbanu5642]

As usual the ego builds a castle and then everything crumbles. No one lives forever. A strong middle class is the answer to life's uncertainties.

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Thank you.

[@nathalieduverna6963]

Just WOW

[@gandfgandf5826]

Lottery headquarters? Seems apt somehow.

[@enriquegm]

There is a “palacete” small palace in the lake Chapala that was owned by president Porfirio Díaz maybe you want to do some research and make a video of it. Thanks for the good work!

[@loriboufford6342]

Although it doesn't concern me, I respect that you kept the video family friendly. Thank you.

[@BamBamBigelow.]

Ignacio has an incredibly awesome moustache. Edit: 'Offence to morality and good manners'......🤔

[@darlingdeb7010]

Definitely a law that needs to come back lol

[@scottpasquale1799]

The 41 is a good movie

[@applesocks89]

The first thing the thumbnail made me think of was the Walt Disney world railroad station at Magic kingdom. If you look at the mansard details, the buildings are actually pretty similar! Both have seven windows and three Gables in the roof as well

[@shebamaree9026]

my grandparents did

[@deniereynolds6119]

Yikes Ignacio!

[@thnktank1]

Your captions went wild for a second after the arrest it mentions hard forced labor but you do not speak it

[@jillatherton4660]

👍

[@vickilindberg6336]

Like letting servants on ground floor where they had light. Keep the family & friends off the ground & away from the horse traffic.

[@ShirleeKnott]

This comment is to help keep the algorithm monster fed. ☕🍩 Did you know it feeds on comments, replies and likes to both? 👍 If you feed it you can watch the channel grow. 💗 🏘

[@t.j.m3987]

Reaping what we sow🚜

[@jamesl9371]

Wealth inequality is disgusting. The guy was filthy rich and corruption gave him a monopoly to make more money. And the workers lived in brutal conditions

[@mikenixon2401]

The history of Mexico is so unfortunate and unnecessary. Good presentation, Ken.

[@vivianwukmir4799]

Intersting Thank You.What is it about a Mansatd roof that seems kind of dark? Ignacio Dias could be the reason glass bottled coke has real sugar and not corn syrup as 39 gram sweetener.. Wealthy Gay Patron znd shinking middle classes.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

Corn syrup is illegal in Mexico. It's sold in small quantities here for the Mexican population here. Corn syrup is bad for you.

[@esteban1487]

Rule #1: Be born into a really wealthy family lol

[@graphguy]

Show me a magnate that is not guilty of mayhem and murder.... none exist.

[@Evolition180]

Netflix: “Dance of the 41”

[@jamesl9371]

Karma = wealthiest guy in the world and died on a ship running away from Mexico and people trying to kill him

[@janedee6488]

Not a big fan of the house. I liked Amada’s bedroom though.

[@mckou1547]

Please just tell me, is this a robo-voice program doing the narration? I suspect it is.

[@raisinbartholamew5864]

leaving out the good stuff?.. are you worried about being arrested for offense to morals and good manners? how little things change..

[@ThisHouse]

While I did my best to include as many pertinent details as possible, there are some horrific, gruesome, tragic things that happened to Ignacio while he was arrested. Discussing the things that happened to him on this channel would probably have my family friendly rating removed if not my entire channel removed from the platform or suspended for violating KZbin's terms of use. There is a lot of information about the brutality that lead to his fate online which you can find by googling his name and arrest.

[@AnnAndNala]

Raisin: Not sure if you're aware how much KZbin monitors channels closely for verbiage and topics which can close a channel down completely, or remove videos and the ability to monetize on them. KZbin creators have to follow some strict guidelines in order to keep their channel and remain monetized. Creators don't have a choice but to adhere to them.

[@raisinbartholamew5864]

@@AnnAndNala I get that, it was a joke on the irony.

[@esteban1487]

Ewwww

[@jimc4731]

I found the story interesting and the house ugly! JIM

[@sharksport01]

The skyscraper is much more beautiful.

[@civfanatic8853]

You keep on saying in your videos something like ”the high costs of maintaining this or that mansion caused them to be demolished”. Thats just a typical and false american excuse and Im sure in most cases its just greed for the land under becoming many times more valuable than the building above and thus most of the historical mansions were demolished for even larger profits and not because of their maintaining costs. Another case, but the same frequent in US and both Americas, must be simply that the mansion/house, like in this video, was probably not spacious enough anymore and thus they built the 100 times larger and 100 times more expensive to maintain ArtDeco tower, but also a lot more spacious and way more profitable of course. So its just greed and huge profit seeking that demolished most of Americas and US historical buildings(also ignorance in many cases) and NOT the maintaining costs. 😉😉

[@brianmiller5444]

"Profit seeking" is what drives urban development and the economy. You can dismiss it as evil greed, but it reflects the reality. Should a relatively modest mansion be "preserved" in the midst of a multimillion population city that is growing rapidly? things change. Plus, the mansion was a bit gaudy and over the top anyway. Is you ideal to "preserve" everything after it is built? There are "activists" now complaining when a 1950s corner gas station. is replaced.

[@civfanatic8853]

@@brianmiller5444 Yes, entire areas should be preserved and protected, especially if they have a certain homogenity of style and look and thus one wont see a ”modest mansion” in the midst of a multimillion inhabitants city... like you can see everywhere in the irritating New York where you notice a beautiful neogothic cathedral squashed or dwarved by an ugly, plain and glass tower or a historical 2-storey mansion next to a 300 m tower. Only Europe and a few countries in Asia succeeded to preserve as such almost entire cities, not just areas or isolated buildings here and there. Unfortunately, both Americas failed miserably here(NewYork, BuenosAires, RioJan, SaoPaolo...). And yes, a 1950s corner gas station should also be preserved if its relevant architecturally(maybe an ArtDeco jewel), historically, culturally..., not to mention if its located in an area as remarkable in the regards mentioned above as the gas station itself 😉😉😀

[@brianmiller5444]

@@civfanatic8853 we will agree to disagree. Preserving buildings in amber is not a good thing. Not allowing cities to change and grow means things get more and more expensive. I am not convinced a gaudy stone monstrosity owned by a family who got their fortune at least partly from slave labor is that much better than your steel and glass tower anyway.

[@civfanatic8853]

@@brianmiller5444 Have you ever visited an european city where you can walk or drive continuously and see the same beautiful, harmonious and best integrated architecture, like in Paris, Barcelona, Prague, Rome, Venice, Florence, Madrid, Munchen, Budapest...? This would not be possible if isolated buildings from that urban fabric(and then most) were allowed to be demolished and replaced with 900 feet highrises like it has happened and still happening in US and actually on both american continents. And who says anything about the origins of the money used to build this or that? If a building was partially erected in a certain period of history with slave money or with money obtained from other humans exploitation, USA and almost the entire world should not have a single building standing 🤣😂

[@brianmiller5444]

@@civfanatic8853 Preserving the gas station is not going to get you Florence. Paris is the result of wholesale, massive reconstruction of the medieval city by an autocratic monarchy. Rigid preservation is fine if you have something to preserve. The typical American city is young

[@fernandogarciaalonsodeflor8073]

MEXICO IS NOT SOUTHAMERICA

[@jamesburtonbud]

Nobody ever said it was champ.

[@ktmcc4360]

Your the California hatter dude... You try to change your voice but your that guy. You bust ass thanks for your work.

[@forward_ever_ever2595]

Judgement batty boy