William A. Clark House, one of Manhattan’s Gilded Age mansions. The construction of the building took 15 years to be completed from 1897 to 1911 only to be demolished in 1927 and replaced with the 960 Fifth Avenue.
The gilded age is responsible for some of the greatest mansions in American history. Fortunately we still have plenty of them around but we’ve lost a lot of noteworthy ones too. I never heard of this one, thanks for sharing this.
tomjoad2020adsays
After reading the Wiki, I get why this house was hated in its time—it must’ve seemed incredibly tacky and like a gross monument to selfishness, like a very expensive McMansion.
DutchMitchellsays
Pure art.
bbbergsays
The house’s style was considered 10 years out of date when it was finished, and the critics didn’t have enough bad things to say about it, but somehow I could live in a place like this and not care at all what the critics said. No one’s ever erected a statue to a critic.
Fuckoff555 says
The [interior](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clark_House) is even more impressive, with some rooms that look like they belong in a royal European palace.
IhaveCripplingAngst says
The gilded age is responsible for some of the greatest mansions in American history. Fortunately we still have plenty of them around but we’ve lost a lot of noteworthy ones too. I never heard of this one, thanks for sharing this.
tomjoad2020ad says
After reading the Wiki, I get why this house was hated in its time—it must’ve seemed incredibly tacky and like a gross monument to selfishness, like a very expensive McMansion.
DutchMitchell says
Pure art.
bbberg says
The house’s style was considered 10 years out of date when it was finished, and the critics didn’t have enough bad things to say about it, but somehow I could live in a place like this and not care at all what the critics said. No one’s ever erected a statue to a critic.