The Largest Mansions Ever in Manhattan

In this recent video, This House deep dives into the details behind NYC’s Gilded Age mansions. Many of these opulent and extravagant houses didn’t last long. The houses were (unsurprisingly) expensive to maintain, often families sold them to developers who then converted them into apartment buildings. Some are still standing today, like the Otto H. Kahn house on the UES, which become an all-girls Catholic school in 1934.

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