Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "Inside Henry Marquand’s Manhattan Mansion: Art, Wealth u0026 the Birth of the MET" video.

Over and over: a beautiful house gone in a few decades when it could have stood and been used for centuries. I'm sure it's another example of the land being more valuable than the house. I hope a lot of the fittings and fixtures were saved though I suppose that's unlikely. I wonder if Mr. Marquand and others who commissioned mansions here in the U.S. knew that the houses were not likely to exist for very long. Marquand is a rather unusual name. I wonder if Henry Marquand is related to the author John P. Marquand the novelist who some time after Henry Marquand's lifetime wrote "The Late George Apley" which is about upper-class Bostonians rather than New Yorkers. John Marquand wrote a number of other novels that I believe are about wealthy people and he wrote stories about the character Mr. Moto who I think was a spy or detective. I know of the author's work, but so far have read only one of his books!
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