Why Were So Many Gilded Age Mansions Demolished?
During the building boom of the ’20s, many were razed to make way for commercial use or multistory apartment houses, which were billed as modern and convenient. In the Gilded Age, “if you had any kind of standing in the city and wealth, you wanted your own single-family home,” said Ms. Why did they tear …
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