Rich and 104, she was the last child of the gilded age

I just love New York history, says Esther Crain. Just walking the streets, you can feel all these ghosts, all these layers of the city's past. Crain, the founder of Web site Ephemeral New York, recently compiled New York City in 3D in the Gilded ...

The Vanderbilts lavish homes, opulent parties and colorful characters made them the Gilded Age's poster family. At one time some of America's richest thanks to a boomingrailroad business, their dollars have long since turned to dust. So where did it ...

When Mark Twain collaborated with his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner in 1873 to write the novel The Gilded Age, it received mixed reviews—but it became a classic, in large part because of its title, which has come to define an era of thorough and ...

Andrew Carnegie, 1913. (Credit: Apic) Before Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates began pushing the world's billionaires to give away at least half of their fortunes, one of the wealthiest men of the 19th century penned an essay with the hopes ...

Sometimes, people say that you should be the change you wish to see in the world. Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age aims to let you do just that, if, by change, you mean late 19th-century hunter of evil abominations. I was told that in this ...

Just when you think you've got a handle on how bad wealth inequality is in America's Second Gilded Age, researchers find it's even worse than you imagined. The European Central

Inspired by the fabled Gilded Age great camps in New York's Adirondack Mountains, architecture firm Shope Reno Wharton and designer Thom Filicia create a ravishing family retreat on the shores of Upper Saranac Lake Decorator Thom Filicia has ...

/PRNewswire/ -- Brace yourself for a spine-chilling new multiplayer experience on PC and consoles as Crytek ventures into the shadows in HUNT: Horrors of the Gilded Age. An all-new IP, HUNT is a third-person action game where up to four players ...

Continue reading below The owner of The Breakers in Newport is fixing the Gilded Age mansion's underground boiler room this summer. The Preservation Society of Newport County broke ground Monday. The boundary fence will also be repaired. The ...