The term “Gilded Age” is used to refer to the period of booming economic growth in the USA in the second half of the 19th century. In New York City this is the period when robber barons like Frick and Carnegie built some of the most extravagant urban palaces the city has ever seen.
Beaux-Arts was the dominant style of architecture in this period, as the greatest American architects from Richard Morris Hunt to Stanford White to C.P.H Gilbert all studied abroad in Paris. These three architects and many others created French châteaux, Italian palazzi, Gothic castles, and Neoclassical mansions in the heart of New York City, and helped give Fifth Avenue along Central Park the cachet it still holds today, as one of the most famous residential neighborhoods in the city.
This tour will walk you past some of the grand residences as I tell you stories of their designers and their owners, as well as the history and scandals of the Gilded Age. If you are a fan of the HBO series "The Gilded Age" then this is the tour for you!
Private group tours may be booked upon request! Contact me directly: emma [at] mynyctours [dot] com