Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "What Happened to Florence Vanderbilt's Mansion? (Florham)" video.

I've read about Florham in the book "Fortune's Children -- The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur Vanderbilt II and I think what appeals to me about Florham is not any particular room but the lifestyle that was lived there for many years: a year in advance you could know what would happen there and the estate was largely self-sufficient and the Twombly's were not celebrity rich people but a family that lived quietly and without much public attention. In her memoir "Dead End Gene Pool", Vanderbilt descendant Wendy Burden tells about going to Florham after it became a school. Both books are engrossing though the second one is the story of a family of tragedy and makes for heartbreaking reading.
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@bonitahobbs2374 The mansion at Florham was not built by slaves. New Jersey is northern state and if it had ever had slavery it had long since been abolished even before the Emancipation Proclomation of 1863. Slavery in the U.S. came to an end a little more than 30 years before the house was commisioned.
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