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  1. How restrained a full blown Federal house is compared to the Louis styled mansions of the wealthy 100 years in the future. Still impressively beautiful in its quiet elegance.
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  2. Republicans believe that life begins at conception and ends with birth. You're on your own after that.
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  3. Always excited to find out at the end of the presentation that the house was spared the wrecking ball! Thanks Ken for another great video.
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  4. I love these stories about how an entry level employee invested his earnings back into the company and eventually became the primary share holder. Land of opportunity no more.
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  5. Ken, you're such a hard worker! Every time I turn around, there is a new This House video. They never seem to disappoint, but we are saddened by the destruction of so many lavish and historically significant mansions. Sic transit gloria mundi. Thanks for all of your hard work. It is appreciated. Happy New Year.
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  6. Someone needs to do the hard work to bring the information together and report on this. Thank you Lei.
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  7. I'm getting demolition burnout watching This House. I understand this is an historical survey, but it would be a great relief to have a happy ending thrown in once in a while. Maybe start with a house museum and work our way back.
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  8. Always glad to hear that the house is still standing.
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  9. What a lovely home. Not imitating any historical design but being truly an example of its own time.
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  10. Definitely the 2nd house. Although having an open courtyard would be the ultimate luxury feature for a Manhattan home.
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  11. Bayou Bend is a very charming and cozy house museum. The size and scale keep it from being an overwhelming experience. Highly recommended.
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  12. Both homes are lovely but modest by Gilded Age standards. I like the columns in front of Jr.'s house.
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  13. Oh Ken, this is more of an observation than a criticism! Take it with a grain of salt and move on. No one is questioning your credentials. We love what you're doing!
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  14. What an exceptional little manse. The harmonious balance of the outbuildings to the house is excellent. Everything is the ideal of perfection, inside and out.
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  15. The interiors were modest by standards of the day among the wealthy. How many marble clad and gilded Louis style interiors faced the wrecking ball in NYC. A truly amazing story, but with the same sad ending.
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  16. Lovely none the less. Well furnished, without pretention or clutter.
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  17. The Patriot Act gutted the bill of rights.
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  18. A Gothic interior that late in the 19th century was quite a rarity. Just seeing the thumbnail of Harrose Hall made me think it would be a good spot for some nondescript '60s mental hospital building. Sic transit gloria mundi!
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  19. You've treated us to another happy ending, Ken..
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  20. What an amazing story. Watching him on TV as a kid, I just assumed he was always a celebrity in waiting. His beautiful wife, Jayne Meadows was also an extraordinary woman. She was a psychic.
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  21. His sponsor should be happy to have such an outstanding spokesman for their business. They're obviously getting a lot of bang for their buck.
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  22. 30 comments in 9 minutes. Can't wait to jump in to this one.
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  23. Another 4K subscriptions this week already. 👍
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  24. Best period bathroom of any house shown so far, IMO.
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  25. ​ @ThisHouse  Losing part of the same arm on 2 occasions was my thought also. I believe having neither arm would be something that would definitely be mentioned in any biography.
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  26. The great hall with its natural finish woodwork is really lovely. Gun running paid well.
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  27. Big, not the lavish mansion of the gilded age though. Still, what do you do with a building that large that can no longer be maintained as a home?
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  28. You already look so sharp wearing a jacket. Can we have one day a week where you put on a tie? Kind of the opposite of casual Friday.
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  29. I've seen these photos many times over the past decades. Their former home was of a modest size but richly decorated also. The Nob Hill mansions were some of the most lavish interiors in the country at the time. Only the Vanderbilt fortune outshone these lost treasures of the Pacific Coast.
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  30. Happy ending! Not so much for Ms Walker, but the house isn't a parking lot now.
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  31. Nice look today. 👍
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  32. Mary Pickford on the front steps looks more like a scene from Jack and the Bean Stalk than from Cinderella.
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  33. This lovely home is hardly indicative of the most lavish houses in San Francisco at the time, which were far and away more opulent than this, comparatively modest home. As decorated at present, the interiors would have been much finer and up to date in full-blown Queen Anne style. Beautiful, but nothing like the best homes destroyed by the ravages of Nature. Still, a jewel!
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  34. Nice hair today, Tony. It's a good look for you. 👍
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  35. Happy Boxing Day.
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  36. I love his penthouse with all of the evidence of an exotic animal massacre on the floor. Too bad the room didn't make it into a museum somewhere.
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  37. Tiny house, maximallist decor verging on hoarder house.
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  38. I'm glad to see that the building is still standing. Unlike his masterpiece of 1904, the Larkin building. Destroyed in 1950, the site is still a wasteland.
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  39. The courtyard looks like it's straight out of a Moroccan palace.
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  40. Hopefully, I would have inherited the money 50 years ago.
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  41. Sic transit gloria mundi. Another casualty of the wrecking ball.
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  42. 🏆
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  43. What was the draw to build the biggest house in America by so many of these titans of industry? Their heirs couldn't afford to maintain the huge estates and large staff, ultimately leading to the demolition of these American palaces. Thankfully, this one hasn't been put to the wrecking ball.
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  44. The stables building itself would have made a substantial residence. Of course, I assumed that it had either burned down or was demolished early on in your presentation. What a nice surprise that it's still standing.
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  45. Nice Chinese pronunciation.
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