Uncovering the Hidden Treasures of a Gilded Age Explorer's Mansion

[@cturner7050]

I like the white rooms ♥️

[@JeffersonHarkins]

We own their summer home in Bar Harbor, Maine. Thanks for showing a picture of it. We are honored to be stewards of this beautiful home, named Breakwater.

[@melissacritell3291]

😯 I hope this is true! If so, that would be amazing. It looks beautiful just from the outside.

[@JeffersonHarkins]

@@melissacritell3291 oh, it’s true. We bought it in Oct 2020.

[@firecracker3911]

Can you share photos?

[@JeffersonHarkins]

@@firecracker3911 You Tube doesn’t have a way of doing that. Put your email in the comments and I’d be happy to.

[@thedivineenergy]

*I am absolutely addicted to this channel. 🥰*

[@emmajohnson6955]

These houses just blow me away.no power tools was used

[@balesjo]

After so many mansions reflecting the taste of the time for dark woods, gilding, lots of molding details, heavy furniture and walls covered in tapestries, this one was a breath of fresh air. It's probably the closest that I've seen that I could still imagine living it (of course, with renovated kitchen and baths, central HVAC, and updated plumbing and electrical).

[@debrasimon859]

I love to see the house in Bar Harbor, Maine!

[@honestmom1958]

Thanks to the This House team for keeping this history alive.

[@paco7992]

Your show has become so amazing. You've taken to it so well. My feed has been giving me some of your older shows and it is wonderful to watch how you've progressed! These stories are the highlight of my day and the length is perfect! A guick moment of culture is a busy day. Your velvet voice has taken me on so many adventures! Thank you for keeping history alive!

[@cat-mum-Jules]

Absolutely beautiful. I love the light and airy entrance hall. What a shame these beautiful buildings get torn down for concrete blocks of buildings

[@ML-xi2rt]

The drawing room is my all-time favorite of all the rooms you have ever shown! It looks like a great place to relax and curl up with a good book!😊

[@Laura-zy5jp]

Sad to hear this home was torn down but someone commented that Rockefeller Center now Stands in its place. I’ve never been to New York so I guess they know. But it’s a lovely home really liked the interior and decor although some rooms seemed to be more cluttered with nic-max’s and other stuff more so than other rooms . The fireplaces and chandeliers are beautiful. So this house was badly damaged by fire in 1921?? But was obviously restored. It so very sad to see so many of NYC’s gilded age mansions torn down. Again Ken another well researched presentation. I really love the “This House”?channel. You’re a great narrator Ken!!👌🫶🏻😊🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@nancyekstrom8409]

Knickknacks

[@Laura-zy5jp]

@@nancyekstrom8409 Gee sorry about the spelling error Nancy. I type quickly and sometimes I shorten thins like words. I don’t need people correcting something so very minor . I’m 60 years old and finished Highschool education . I also still work a nice job for a living I’m not “Dumb” Ok??Such a tiny little spelling error 🙄🙄🤨🤨🤔🤔

[@Laura-zy5jp]

Ed if

[@MandieTerrier]

I've been to NYC and Rockefeller Center is iconic, but it's ugly. Too bad this beautiful home was torn down to make way for such a hideous beast.

[@Laura-zy5jp]

@@MandieTerrier Hi thanks for response. I’d like to maybe visit to see museums and landmarks but never to live there. Far to much hustle and bustle. I am from much smaller midwest city. But it is so sad to see these beautifully built and crated homes either fall into neglect and disrepair or just get demolished. It’s a part of America’s past. The gilded age saw many lovely mansions built only to be destroyed for eyesores to be built. Like the beautiful plantation s of the Deep South also. Thanks for your kind response take care😊🌹

[@proudvirginian]

I'm the oddball who likes the old kitchen and butler's pantry. As soon as I saw Manhattan in the title I knew what happened to this one.

[@ShirleeKnott]

then I'm an oddball too!

[@proudvirginian]

@@ShirleeKnott I would love to have an old kitchen(or at least one that looks that way). Big one ton stove ❤️

[@ShirleeKnott]

@@proudvirginian hope you get one! had one for 34 years and loved every min of it....then retired and downsized

[@SpanishEclectic]

I loved the dark-paneled library room. The long entrance hall/gallery is stunning as well, though quite different. This house was so tasteful inside, with a nice balance of clean classic lines and finishes, and more 'cozy' rooms with wood and displays of artifacts. While we can't know what they were really like, it seems both were decent people who cared about education and helping the sick. By 1909 the financial picture had changed in America, and it seems that some of the wealthy had turned away from the crazy excess of the earlier decades.

[@guenteroliverschaefer4664]

a pity that this fantastic architecture has gradually given way to skyscrapers. Thank you so much for remembering .

[@chriscassidy221]

The kitchen and servant quarters.

[@1961Lara]

Wow….now that’s a house!

[@KerryEriksson]

Love the bedroom

[@acgsamson6934]

Shame this marvel is as well gone.. nice video as always:)

[@biancacastellongloria8805]

Ok but is Glenn Close a relative of Annie's because my goodness they look so alike!

[@rickkearn7100]

Excellent channel. I liked this post so much I subscribed. Cheers.

[@Rizky06]

I've never heard of a complex groin vault. I usually learn something from every video. 😃

[@johannusverhoeff4911]

time to pull down the ghastly office block and rebuild that charming cultural home as a gift to the nation

[@monkeygraborange]

How wonderfully cozy!

[@nancyekstrom8409]

The cluttered look would have made me feel uncomfortable. I loved the butlers and chef’s areas, but my favorite was their bedroom. I’d guess that theirs was a live match rather than an arrangement to pool the wealth of two families. One of the saddest things that was practiced during the gilded age among the super rich was the marriage arrangements between European impoverished noblemen and the young ladies of wealth-called dollar princesses. 😢

[@williamtyre523]

Very interesting that his aunt didn't include him in the 400, but it didn't seem to hurt his social interactions. Beautiful home, I was intrigued by the elaborate wall treatment over the fireplace in the drawing room (and the peacock standing on the handrail in the stair landing). Thanks as always for another great tour back in time!

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

I'd imagine him being somewhat of a rebel in that family, thus not being included on the list would just proven to him that he was right.

[@LJB103]

There had to be some underlying reason since several members of his family (he had seven brothers and sisters) were included.

[@wernerdanler2742]

My favorite room would be the butlers pantry. That's where all the good stuff is kept, like beluga caviar and good French champaign. 😅😂😅😂😅😂 😊

[@martiwest2594]

I like the bathrooms

[@firecracker3911]

Love all of it!

[@1961Lara]

Music room!

[@roystrickland3363]

Well, here's a case where a beautiful old house was replaced by an even more elegant landmark: the iconic Rockefeller Center.

[@wilsonsmom411]

Beautiful home. I hope at least some of the artifacts were repatriated to their countries of origin…

[@RedHeadedTsunami]

I'd like to peek at what was beyond that statue! Was it the servant's area/quarters?

[@lisalemberis5195]

I really enjoy seeing the pictures & hearing the history with the owners of these mansions, but I find them gaudy & undesirable for my taste. But so interesting to see. I much prefer an old Greek Revival or a Federal period or a more simple Victorian.

[@sharonalexa]

Beautiful home. It’s difficult to read the Patreon names at the end of each video because the names are in bold.

[@maxtagliapietra8661]

Che peccato vedere questi palazzi meravigliosi distrutti , non capirò mai come mai non siano stati preservati e tutelati , oggi potrebbero essere un elemento di attrazione turistica.

[@mikehughes4969]

If I could go back in time? Probably the first thing I'd do is go to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. But I would like to see the servants quarters. I've always been more interested in how they lived rather than the super rich.

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

I would have been in the 400, they’d have loved me.

[@DETROIT1948]

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[@asylumlover]

ALTHOUGH I PROBABLY WOULD NOT APPROVE OF THIS DEMOLITION, I HAVE TO WONDER JUST HOW MUCH DAMAGE AND DESTRUCTION THAT FIRE DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAS ANYTHING SALVAGED FROM THIS SITE???????????????

[@shoelady6457]

😁👍

[@elephantintheroom5678]

I HATE how they tore down all those beautiful houses for stupid skyscrapers.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

Non dico nulla. Potrebbe essere usato contro di me 🙂

[@jrgnc1]

And another grand house is razed to make way for ugly capitalism...

[@pmn2821]

Another one lost...

[@snarflatful]

Speak up, we can't hear you. 👂

[@ShirleeKnott]

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