I visited a Gilded Age mansion once called 'the American Versailles.' These 7 details left me speechless.
Lynnewood Hall, the second-largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the US, is briefly open to the public for the first time in eight decades.
Lynnewood Hall, a 110-room Gilded Age estate in Pennsylvania, was completed in 1899 and is now the second-largest surviving mansion of its kind in the US. The mansion, originally built for Pennsylvania butcher and transportation entrepreneur Peter A.B. Widener, was completed when he was 50 years old. In 1912, Widener's 50-year-old son, George, along with his wife Eleanor and adult son Harry, tragically died when the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
After Widener died in 1915, the estate remained vacant until 2023 when it was purchased by the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation for $9 million. The mansion hosts the installation "Fleur de Villes: The Gilded Age," inspired by characters from the HBO series, which runs from September 25 through October 4.
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