Treasures of New York: Gold Coast Mansions

An opulent, bygone era...

 

Otto Kahn's Oheka Castle, thirteen.org

 

 

 

 

Treasures of New York:  Gold Coast Mansions

 

 

The North Shore of Long Island is commonly known as the Gold Coast.

 

During the turn of the twentieth century, it was home of hundreds of America's wealthiest men and women who built vast country estates modeled after country homes of the European gentry.

 

In a 40 year period from the 1890s to the 1930s, more than 1200 mansions were built on the Gold Coast by a who's who of the time, including the Guggenheims, Kahns, Morgans, Phipps, Roosevelts, Vanderbuilts and Woolworths, according to PBS.

 

For a peek into this opulent, bygone era, here's Treasures of New York: Gold Coast Mansions, which aired earlier this year on PBS in New York: http://watch.wliw.org/video/2365184233/