Comments by "" (@hewitc) on "Inside Henry Flagler's Gilded Age Mansion: The Story of Florida's Transformation" video.

  1. it's not part of the original house. It's not that old.
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  2. He should have installed an elevator
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  3. It was never meant to be used in the summer. Flagler used it two months only each year in the winter. The central heating was installed to preserved the house from humidity-- in the summer when no one was there.
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  4. You probably know this, but for those who don't the French Salon was gilded not with gold but with aluminum, which was extremely expensive until the Hall ore extraction process was invented.
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