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As someone who researches a wide variety of topics related to the intersection of art, architecture, and society during America’s Gilded Age, I have come across something that has confused and perplexed the small community of people who read, write, and think about such things. And that is whether the Bar Harbor “cottage” of George […]

By Skip Moskey The Levi Z. Leiter House, 1500 New Hampshire Avenue at Dupont Circle, Washington, DC., under construction 1891. The house was torn down in 1947. (Architect: Theophilus P. Chandler, Philadelphia.) When I was writing my book about Larz and Isabel Anderson, I got to know many of the great Gilded Age mansions the […]

Lansdowne House, by Edith Mary Garner Gilded Age mansions were never designed without regard for their commissioners’ tastes in architecture and interior decoration. Indeed, architects worked closely with their clients to make sure that the finished product met their every whim and expectation. One of the themes I explore in my book Larz and Isabel Anderson: […]

by Skip Moskey Pierre Lorillard’s houseboat “Caiman”, pictured here in a watercolor published in 1893 in The Illustrated American. (Source: Google Books.) We often associate yachts and steamships with Gilded Age vacations and recreation, but did you know that houseboats were also once the “in” thing for wealthy boaters like Pierre Lorillard, Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt, […]

The former residence of U.S. minister to France, Whitelaw Reid (35, avenue Hoche, Paris; photo 2013) In the fall of 1891, during the first months of his first diplomatic assignment as second secretary of the American legation in London, Larz Anderson took a short vacation in Paris. His boss, the U.S. minister to the Court of […]

https://gildedage.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wagner_Bridal_Chorus-2.ogg Isabel Weld Perkins and Larz Anderson were married in Boston’s Arlington Street Church (Unitarian) on June 10, 1897.  This is the church that Isabel attended as a child growing up in Boston’s Back Back in the late 19th century. More than 330 people were invited to attend the nuptials in one of Boston’s most distinguished and […]