John Jacob Astor took over his mother’s portion ... Dubbed “Clark’s Folly,” the William A. Clark mansion at 960 Fifth Avenue at the more northern end of Millionaire’s Row cost an ...

Sadly, the mansion was demolished in 1926 after being sold to a real estate developer and in its stead rose 666 Fifth Avenue, an office tower. 2. Mrs. Astor’s House, 34th Street and 5th Avenue ...

Image Caroline Astor lived in a brownstone mansion at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, later the site of old Waldorf Astoria Hotel and now of the Empire State Building.Credit...Brown Brothers New ...

Astor IV lived in a gray-limestone chateau on Fifth Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets. The family sold the mansion in 1925 for $3.5million and it was demolished a year later in 1926 to make ...

from Manhattan’s storied Fifth Avenue to the English countryside. At Cliveden, their English estate, William Waldorf Astor transformed a grand Italianate mansion into a playground for the ...

William Vincent Astor's life was one of unenviable isolation and singularly strange circumstances. Literally in the manor born, he arrived into the world in the Fifth Avenue mansion of his ...

Titled “Fifth Avenue in the Gilded Age ... Hear all the gossip about the lives inside these opulent mansions, from the details of Caroline Astor's legendary ballroom to the tales of ...

Those who have seen the period drama know that city socialite Caroline Astor hosted lavish parties at her Fifth Avenue mansion. One of her five children, Colonel John Jacob “Jack” Astor IV ...