Comments by "gandf gandf" (@gandfgandf5826) on "This House" channel.

  1. It was oddly touching that the site remains a 'pocket park'.
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  2. Not being a US American I had no idea Hawaii became part of the US via military action, and that late in history.
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  3. Rose Terrace Two. So grand, and beautiful.
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  4. Love the perfect symmetry of the power house.
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  5. Love this one, I think my favourite NYC house on this channel. So far. Thanks for showing the floor plan. So grand, only one room wide. Beautiful symmetrical facade. What a shame such a place is gone.
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  6. 3 minutes ish, love that shot of the staircase. The life of royalty, walking up and down grand staircases.
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  7. Perhaps Samuel was just an uncomplicated individual. Uncomplicated is a nice way to say not bright. Connections trump everything else in this world, same as it ever was. The house is very pretty and well proportioned.
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  8. "skirmishes with cannonballs.". What a life. Perfect house. Wish people building new old house would copy this.
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  9. Now I understand why most plantation houses that are open to the public don't mention slavery. Thinking about the reality is very sad.
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  10. That "prefabricated" staircase is magnificent. Todays prefab building materials don't quite measure up. 😅
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  11. Bedfords Westport YMCA still standing as part of the Westport shopping centre. I think I prefer the style and scale of this building to either of his mansions.
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  12. The video image alone was enough to send me go ogling. Wow, so many beautiful houses built by one family. The 'Fabulous Fahnestocks' could have been a film by Orson Wells. My favourite was one not shown in the video, 'Ker Arvor' built for Snowden Fahnestock in Newport in 1932, so they still had money in the depression. It's a mansion yes, but not a marble palace, and still a private home.
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  13. Check out the Henry Poor house in Tuxedo Park New York. Still a private home. It sits oddly in the landscape but it is, I think, quite beautiful. Described as Jacobean in style, which I don't usually like.
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  14. The butler was the patsy/fall guy I suspect.
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  15. Can't say I love the house, but I do love the name, 'Idle Hour'.
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  16. Well, being a child riding your tricycle up and down the 112 ft hall would have been fun.
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  17. Beautiful, and built on a human scale.
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  18. Agree, love to see the floor plans of these houses. Often can't find them on line
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  19. Stone Manor, 7 luxury condominiums, 6 of them owned by the same person. The interiors are intact! Huge rooms, enjoyably OTT ornamentation.
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  20. Lottery headquarters? Seems apt somehow.
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  21. Delightfully OTT. Would love to spend a dark and stormy night there.
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  22. Really interesting topic. Thanks Ken.
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  23. Wow, those interiors were...busy, but I did like the dining room. It's unfortunate that so many of these buildings are demolished, but what could they realistically be used for? Even people who can afford to live like that don't wish to. A line from the film Gosford Park "does one really want the bother?"
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  24. Vid title made me chuckle. Maybe I'm not clueless, I'm a spy?
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  25. I can't imagine how optimistic they must have been to build such huge buildings just to live in.
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  26. Goodness me, the staircase! Magnificent. I want one just like it.
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  27. Grandeur without beauty. The cost of upkeep of such a building means its use for any purpose is unlikely. I admire the optimism of those who built such edifices, but its time is past.
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  28. Favourites from this video were the master bedroom/ballroom, and Ken's suit.
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  29. All magnificent but my favourite Duke mansion is one that wasn't built. Horace Trumbauer designed an enormous French chateau style mansion for Duke Farms. The floor plan and an image of what it would have looked like can be found on-line.
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  30. I love a limestone vestibule.
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  31. More like a hotel in scale, than a house. Oh, I see it became a hotel. Apt.
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  32. Beautiful staircases.
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  33. Cost of demolition high. Cost of arson, a box of matches, plus insurance payout. Not suspicious at all, these many mansion fires.
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  34. Or an art gallery.
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  35. I like that I was surprised by the ending. Still standing.
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  36. Only 9 seconds in, the staircase! My favourite. No need to watch any further. Magnificent woodwork.
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  37. 59 Post Road East, Westport, CT
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  38. Beautiful. Love the interiors. Grand, but also well proportioned. Also like the comparatively austere exterior. The symmety. Love a faux chataeux. This one might be my new favourite on this channel. Thanks Ken.
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  39. It is a bit much but I like it. Facades are grand and quite beautiful. Interiors are almost vulgar, but the past is another country. There's a house with a similar facade, inspired by Marble House, where I live, in Melbourne Australia, built several years ago. I assume the interiors aren't anything like this. It only cost 70 million AUD, or about 50 mill USD, so it's probably rather basic by comparison.
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  40. Wow. Favourite houses were the first two and the last two. The second one was extraordinary. The interior detail and the facade. The second last one, by Julia Morgan, I'd love a smaller version of that house. Number one pick for me though is the guest house of the last house shown. That's the ideal for me. I've seen it online before. It's beautifully detailed, and perfectly proportioned. I'd love to see a video of Julia Morgans work. Thanks Ken
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  41. 2 minutes ish the dining room is a bright yellow. I have a picture of it I cut out a magazine decades ago. The hanging panels on the walls have a rich deep red background. It's a beautiful room. My favourite though is the library which I hadn't seen before. Thanks Ken.
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  42. 163 Marlborough Street. Looking at past listings online, the interiors seem to be intact, mantelpieces, plaster work, et cetera. Eye watering price estimates on the larger units.
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  43. I've read that it has it's own hydro electric power production, using water from the river, to heat the boilers in the house.
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  44. The staircase looks like a stage setting for an opera. What a place to live.
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  45.  @omgsockss  yes. This Airken house would make a good museum to highlight the reality. From an on line search, it now appears to be a wedding venue.
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  46. Demolished paradise and put up a parking lot.
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  47. Don't usually like this style, but I love this house. Favourite - the stairs. This house is one of the few featured on this channel that I would live in, if I had the choice. Wouldn't wear a tuxedo though. 😊
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  48. Love the house shown at 35 seconds ish.
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  49. 'Florida Water' seems like an odd name for a perfume. Makes me think of swamps and 'gators.
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  50. Wow, imagine the stock market falling by 50% now. It's all funny money and make believe.
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  51. Love it. It makes me smile. Live there? Probably not.
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  52. Yes! If people don't see a wealthy surface, they think you're broke, and leave you alone.
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  53. Tiny house? No. I much prefer seperate rooms to open plan. Don't want to look at the kitchen sink all day. What would be the ideal? Large high ceiling living room. Large high ceiling bedroom. Compact out of sight kitchen. Compact bathroom. What was referred to as a box room in the victorian era, a place to store everything, including hundreds of books. In the middle of 50 acres.
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  54. A simple handsome home built on a human scale. The ideal.
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  55. Who else hit pause to go ogle Point Breeze New Jersey?
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  56. Full size organ? Sold!
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  57. What a beautiful well proportioned house. Irreplaceable, so worth the bother and expense of relocation.
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  58. Another remarkable survival. Favourites were the breakfast room, the Louis xvi round room and all the bedrooms that were shown. Of the larger rooms the library. Always the library. The other grand spaces were well suited to having a few hundred "friends" over to show off your dust collectors. A truly great film location for sure.
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  59. The dining room. Beautiful and perfectly proportioned.
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  60. Love the columned entrance facade. Beautiful.
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  61. Huge, but well proportioned.
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  62. As much as I love a limestone city palace, 'Weekend' was my favorite by far.
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  63. Yes, now thin cheap looking materials with marble thrown at the bathrooms and kitchen. Awful.
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  64. Yes. It magnifies what is there.
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  65. As an art object, wonderful. As a home, well, no. Freeze in winter, cook in summer, and built on a flood plain. Does look beautiful though, sitting in splendid isolation.
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  66. Just looked up what's for sale now in Tuxedo Park. Number 74 Tower Hill Loop. Take a look. I love it. Big dining room, small kitchen. Perfect. Make a toasted cheese sandwich, and eat it in the grand dining room. Such a beautiful outlook from the house. Near to heaven. Edit:. I just noticed the property tax amount, more that $4000 a month. !!!!!!!!! Say what? Wow. Expensive to live in the land of the free.
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  67. "a bit of a construction fiasco". That made me chuckle, imagining me attempting such construction. Love the whole kit home concept but not a task I would take on.
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  68. The library. I'd move a bed in there, and never leave.
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  69. Remarkable that such an oddity is one to survive. Each to their own. Consider some of the monster houses being built now. If they survive a century, what will be said of them then?
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  70. A terrible waste, but as a house it would have made a nice hotel. It had the appearance of an institutional or commercial structure.
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  71. Wow, that really is magnificent. Love the Fragonard room, the staircase, and Henry's bedroom, and of course every staircase landing should have a fireplace with a marble mantelpiece, and marble columns. I know mine has, haha not really. I'm not ever likely to go to New York, but if I did, I think this would be the first place I'd visit. My favourite is the one others have mentioned not in these videos, Clayton. Love the dark wood panelling and staircase. Thanks Ken.
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  72. Gotta have the "antique chachkies". 😊
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  73. There aren't enough superlatives for this one. Magnificent. Spectacular. Grand beyond belief, but surprisingly quite beautiful. Favourite is the breakfast room, followed by the library, and the staircase. 43 bathrooms !? Surely 42 would have been enough? Only 8000 acres left? Dear me. I hope the occupants are alright with that. 😁
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  74. This house was for sale last year, but I don't know what, if anything, was retained from the original house. I like the entrance hall. Love a Corinthian column. Other than that, I like the house next door, which appears to be intact. Interesting facade, unusually high window to wall ratio for a city house.
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  75. Remarkable survival this one. The surrounding streets seem to be ordinary suburban housing.
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  76. I also don't welcome reality, but my only palace is of the mind.
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  77. Based on the exterior I expected to like this one but I didn't. The ceilings are too low for the size of the rooms. To my untrained eye, it's not well proportioned. I did like the guest bedrooms though.
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  78. Thanks. I didn't know that.
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  79. Goodness me, what a wicked waste.
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  80. A "barbed wire empire"? Sounds...spiky.
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  81. I think this one really is beautiful inside and out, and the original garden! How wonderful. I've seen many pictures of the inside. Don't have a favourite room, but as always it's the small rooms that I love in grand houses. Walk up the grand sweeping staircase, and sit in my small private study, would be about right for me. Wouldn't mind a throne room though, just for laughs.
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  82. "monkey dressed up in a costume." That is funny. Apt for what passes for royalty.
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  83. Yes, and even if sufficiently wealthy to maintain one of these places, who would want to? Too much bother. Many are beautiful though, but also many others are grand, but not at all beautiful.
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  84. Prefer the skyscraper. Unique . Let's hope its replacement gets replaced. 😊. I love Ernest Flaggs small houses, but his larger grander domestic works don't appeal to me.
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  85. Thank you for showing the floor plan. Love to see the floor plan.
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  86. Love the perfect symmetrical appearance of the facades. There's sonething about symmetry that calms the mind.
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  87. It's good to be the King.
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  88. The interiors seem as if they couldn't decide what to do, so chose to have a touch of everything.
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  89. Now I want corn flakes.
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  90. Money no object then yes. Pay other people to do it. I love hard work, I could watch other people do it all day. 😁
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  91. Those opening words re pronunciation 😂. I pronounce it woosh shooster sheer, so no one feels the need to 'correct' me, as I'm clearly not being serious.
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  92. Love everything about the entrance, especially the doors "hidden in the shadows", and the entrance hall and staircase.
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  93. One of Australia's main banks is the National Australia Bank. N.A.B. 😂
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  94. I wondered why this was your favourite, but then that staircase. Wow. It looks like a movie set, not a house.
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  95. To pay the WWI debt possibly. I read that the UK took 80 years to pay off all WWI debts. Canada being a commonwealth country may have had to do the same. Always money for war.
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  96. Magnificent setting and gardens.
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  97. At least a sculpture garden was a nicer outcome than most.
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  98. Guillotined?
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  99. Hmm I'm guessing the architects cared for Frick as much as he cared for this house. Going off on a tangent, reminds me of people whose hairdressers clearly don't like them. 😅
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  100. Yes. Those interiors are very grand and seem to still be intact.
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  101. Street address is 2 E 63rd St, New York, NY 10065, USA and for those who like to see floor plans the halfpuddinghalfsauce blog has them. Can't post a link because YT deletes them when I try.
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  102. Both magnificent and both still standing! I choose the second one I think. The first one really needs to be at the centre of a huge garden.
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  103. A great work of art.
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  104. Wonder if guests enjoyed Theodates theatrical presentations?
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  105. I like to sit down but the number of chairs seem a tad excessive. Odd house of odd proportions. I like it.
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  106. A bay window between two fireplaces? Different. I like it.
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  107. Love the house, don't like the sauce.
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  108. Look at me, I'm rich. I'm neutral on this one. Okay edit that hotel though. Eyesore.
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  109.  @claudermiller  wow, that's quite incredible.
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  110. I do love a long gallery, but... The close up shot early in this video shows mismatched different sized windows. It would seem it went from having the appearance of having been built from builders salvage materials, to being builders salvaged materials, hopefully. An oddity for sure, but - almost - charming for it.
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  111. Groovy disco room. Every home should have one.
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  112. Not my cup of tea either, but was amused by the idea.
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