Summer is right around the corner and no better time to visit actual historical homes that inspired the show. Check for Covid 19 restrictions before visiting.
Theodore Roosevelt Museum and Birth Place. Technically a National Park located in Manhattan the home is a great example of the Brownstones of the period.
https://www.nps.gov/thrb/index.htm
The New York Tenement Museum in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan to see how the other half lived.
https://www.tenement.org/tours/?tour_date=2022-01-27
The Lyndhurst home of Jay Gould 19th Century Robber Baron and basis for the Russel Family. Located in the lower Hudson Valley.
Kykuit The Rockefeller Mansion. A little north up the Hudson River is the Estate of John D. Rockefeller the richest man in the world at the time and adjusted for inflation possible the richest man ever.
A somewhat modest house considering the immense Rockefeller wealth. The recreation building is bigger than the main house and still in use by the family to this day.
https://hudsonvalley.org/historic-sites/kykuit-the-rockefeller-estate/
The Vanderbilt Mansion New Hyde Park,NY
Just up the road from the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library is the Vanderbilt Mansion National Park.
https://www.nps.gov/vama/planyourvisit/hours.htm
The Mansions of Newport Rhode Island offer a dazzling example of the opulence of the period. As you can see they are doing a pretty aggressive tie in with the TV show.
https://www.newportmansions.org/gilded-age
The Mark Twain House Hartford, Connecticut. The home of the author who coined the term The Gilded Age. Twain wrote some of his most famous books here.
If I have left anything out please feel free to add to the list.
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