What Happened to the American Dukes and Their Palatial Mansions? | DOCUMENTARY

[@TheJojo01902]

I appreciate your longer content, which allows the viewer to follow a thread connecting a number of houses and how they are part of a family’s history.

[@monkeygraborange]

I always wonder what happens when people with multiple residences are looking for that green sweater they just _have_ to wear? Does that start a barrage of phone calls by the servants to different homes, or does one just buy that green sweater for every single house? Oy, such problems!

[@johnmontag]

At this time, labor was so cheap. You’d just buy 1 for every house if you were smart

[@paean109]

Amazing homes. A 40,000 sqft house is mind boggling. If I had a little bit of money, I would be happy just to have a personal chef.

[@lisadolan689]

I’d rather have a cleaner 😫😫😫

[@dmd5645]

​@@lisadolan689😂😂🤣🤣 exactly!!.

[@jefflawrentz1624]

I had never seen a lot of the earlier Duke homes in Durham before. Thanks Ken!

[@JohnSeefeldt]

I love all your videos and look forward to them along with the included history lesson. You are very knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@Snuggelbubs1]

Wonderful! The Hawaiian house was so beautiful! I worked for a couple of years in the Frist Duke House on Fifth Ave. (mid-'90s), selling what few antiques were left in the house to local dealers in Manhattan.

[@GlennMandeville154]

Thanks Ken! An amazing story and an amazing video.

[@lisadolan689]

Thank you Ken. I love this new format 15 mins is perfect 👌 🤩♥️

[@Patrickschlehuber]

I’ve been watching you for years. This was one of my favorites.

[@rustybearden1800]

Doris Duke was larger than the life she inherited - she broke traditions, boundaries and stereo types in high style with no regrets. Her story is worthy of a movie - and it all began on a sharecropper tobacco farm in pre Civil War North Carolina.

[@BlaineShire]

UM her life was made into a movie 'TOO RICH: THE SECRET LIFE OF DORIS DUKE' staring the late great Lauren Bacall.

[@rustybearden1800]

@@BlaineShire that was a mediocre "made for TV" miniseries

[@BlaineShire]

@@rustybearden1800 It is still a move..

[@rustybearden1800]

@@BlaineShire not really

[@BlaineShire]

@@rustybearden1800 still a movie Mr. Movie Critic.

[@vickiedouglas401]

I have an interest in Doris Duke after living in Newport. I visited Rough point several times. I think it is my favorite of the summer cottages. Her story is so interesting. Bittersweet.

[@ledrodservilex3765]

Interesting family history. It is a shame that manny of the houses of that time are now gone. The dominican diplomatic she married was called Profirio Rubirosa.

[@proudvirginian]

From 1820 to 1993 in one video. And so many houses! Great video.

[@juliepeterson6639]

Just wowed! Her charity was amazing, as well.

[@robinpaula45]

Thanks for posting, love your videos.

[@randykreifels6171]

Great story, and i am glad she did important things with her money. Thanks ken

[@alanblanes2876]

This was terrific! I learned a lot from this episode.

[@terrygibbs1147]

Shangri-La. Stunning

[@David-HPC1904]

One of your best videos Ken, thank you. I always wonder what happened to the salvageable materials when a mansion is demolished.

[@gandfgandf5826]

All magnificent but my favourite Duke mansion is one that wasn't built. Horace Trumbauer designed an enormous French chateau style mansion for Duke Farms. The floor plan and an image of what it would have looked like can be found on-line.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Thanks Ken, what an interesting video! The brothers' Manhattan mansions are some of my favorite. I think the mansion on 84th and 5th was built as a spec house, four houses or so in a row by the same builder, with buyers to materialize later. I had forgotten about Shangri-La! Thanks again! *edit: 82nd st and 5th ave.

[@almabaker2913]

Keep up the good work..😀

[@DannyKoKo]

And I guess there's more about the Duke fortunes(?) Great video 👍👏

[@dmd5645]

Learned something NEW!!. Did not know they were the originators of the tobacco companies!. Now i know Why they became so wealthy!. I like that original red brick townhouse mansion facing Central Park!. It just went up for sale a year or two ago. I viewed a virtual tour and was completely UNIMPRESSED!. The ONLY thing left is the structure--but the new designers had to modernize the whole frickin thing. No ornate chandeliers, or period French style furniture (which is what those rooms were designed to showcase!!). Well, at least its still here. And, we all can still aspire!!. Lol. 🍾🥂⚜️

[@debbiem9218]

Nice story about the dukes and how they got rich at the expense of many of their customers getting sick from the tobacco. I'm so glad today that the governments are going after these companies and getting them to pay some of the medical bills of people who are getting sick from the tobacco. My dad, rest is soul, was I think one of them!

[@corrineagnello4584]

It wasn’t known back then tobacco caused cancer.

[@Portia-oc6mr]

Doris Duke and Duke Uni--didn't know there was a connection. ❤❤Brodie's Durham County Italianate mansion. The interior of Ben's mansion didn't disappoint either, including the second Manhattan mansion. Ditto for Buck's mansion. The lives and grand homes of the extraordinarily wealthy--so interesting.. Thank you, Ken.

[@sapereaude5476]

Особняк Джейса Дьюка - строгая стилизация под французский классицизм, лаконичная и очень статная. Усадьба его дочки Дорис - настоящая восточная сказка

[@blahmooblah789]

I am craving the rich mellow flavor of This House

[@cathyhopf6532]

in the 1980.s I rode horses at the NJ location of Doris Dukes Mansion It is so sad to hear that it was razed

[@adammiller2246]

I was wondering if the estate house that Mary Duke Biddle was going to b mentioned. This estate is located in Tarrytown NY. It became Tarrytown Confrence Center.

[@sharksport01]

Daddy's got pneumonia, it's freezing outside, quick Doris...open the window!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

When James Duke was on his deathbed in the Manhattan house his wife told the servants to open up all of the windows and shut off the boiler. Not long after he drifted away.

[@itschelseakay]

“After a brief imprisonment…” wait, I want to hear more 😆

[@sandybruce9092]

I live in North Carolina and just about everything with the Duke name is from this family!

[@BamBamBigelow..]

Dem Duke Boys

[@MikeCruz]

Doris Duke led a storied and sad life. None of the men she married truly loved her; they loved her money more. I saw her once at a supermarket in Somerset, NJ in the late 80's and early 90's. She was in a bathrobe and slippers buying milk or something. I remember people whispering as she walked by. I didn't know who she was, but I do remember her as being polite to the cashier. She paid in cash and then she left.

[@carolyn8271]

What does Lindbergh estate look like in Hawaii?

[@andyroo9381]

The North Carolina mansion has been torn down?

[@VTL291]

First

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Congratulations!! Your cookie AND a shiny aluminum medal are on their way to your lovely home right this minute!

[@janeflip1]

Two ads in one 13 minute video? Nope!

[@you2angel1]

Wow, thank you. °~•.☆.•~°

[@you2angel1]

1st non Hawaiian woman to engage in competitive surfing. That's tits. Time stamp 9:50 °~•.☆.•~° I recognize the images from a Graphic Design course it took in Powell Wyoming °~•.☆.•~°

[@tudofett]

Duke decided to abandon farming and ventured into the tobacco buisness /facepalm

[@danielwardin3609]

Couldn't bring yourself to mention Porfirio Rubirosa by name?😂 Or, perhaps, in this increasingly prudish world could that get you demonetized?? Best regards.

[@gingerhiser7312]

So their fortune came from tobacco, a deadly product.

[@sandybruce9092]

Many rich families got their money from tobacco. Makes me sick!