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3 unusual facts about Gilded Age


Bloomingdale Cornet Band

A "cornet band" was a common designation for wind bands organized during the Gilded Age.

Henry Baldwin Hyde

On the last night of January 1905, James Hazen Hyde (vice president of Equitable from 1899 to 1905) gave one of the most fabulous costume balls of the Gilded Age.

Iron Stone Strategic Capital Partners

Iron Stone was responsible for the redevelopment of the long vacant Elkins Memorial YMCA, located at 1425 Arch St. This historic building was constructed in 1911 by the Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer.


Copper Kings

The Copper Kings, industrialists William Andrews Clark, Marcus Daly, and F. Augustus Heinze, were collectively known for the epic battles they fought in Butte, Montana and the surrounding region during the Gilded Age over the control of the local copper mining industry, a fight which had ramifications for not only Montana, but the United States as a whole.

Elkan Naumburg

Richard Arnold, Leopold Damrosch, Marcella Sembrich, Theodore Thomas, and others performed weekly in the Naumburg family parlor during the 1870s, 80s, and 90s, entertaining such Gilded Age critics and artists as Henry Theophilus Finck and Albert Henry Krehbiel.

Garrett Jacobs Mansion

Built in 1853 by Samuel George, the home gets its name from its last and most famous owner, Mary Frick Garrett Jacobs, who, with her husband Robert Garrett, transformed the home into a prime example of the Gilded Age mansions of the city.

T. J. Stiles

This massive study was the first comprehensive account of the life of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, the nineteenth-century shipping and railroad mogul, financial backer of Vanderbilt University, and founder of the Gilded Age Vanderbilt dynasty.


see also

Jean Zimmerman

Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance is a dual biography of Edith Minturn Stokes and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, a nineteenth-century couple known for philanthropy, architecture and documenting New York City history.

John Michael Kohler

Today, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, which occupies a square block in downtown Sheboygan (containing Kohler's restored Gilded Age home along with modern buildings), is a tribute to this founding member of a distinguished family.

Saratoga Springs History Museum

The Walworth family's history is told in: The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America by Geoffrey O'Brien, Henry Holt and Co., 2010 (ISBN 978-0-8050-8115-2).

William Henry Hurlbert

Frank Maloy Anderson, writing in 1948, concluded that Gilded Age lobbyist Sam Ward (1814–1884) wrote the Diary, but that its contents were substantially concocted.