New Jersey's Most Expensive Mansion (Crocker-McMillin Mansion)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Join Ken in a riveting journey through New Jersey's most expensive house, Darlington Mansion. From its opulent Jacobean architecture to its tragic past involving George Crocker's rollercoaster life, this video is more than just a house tour. Witness how a mansion becomes a symbol of ambition, loss, and transformation, intertwined with scandals and a recent shocking seizure by the federal government.
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Check out George Crocker's Manhattan mansion: ua-cam.com/video/Oxec5Kvlrhw/v-deo.html
Thanks for the link. :) 'Town & Country' magazine also has a small, but lovely spread of the updated interior photos of the mansion, if anyone is interested.
I love this channel. So many of the comments appreciate the beauty of homes that were built so long ago.
I have a weakness, for Addison Mizner, Art Deco, and the grand mansions in New Jersey.
It is so nice to people think the same
We toured Darlington a couple of years ago when it was on the market. There have been a lot of renovations and modernizations to bring it up to par. Even the pipe organ is in working condition! They did a good job and the house is absolutely splendid! I can't imagine it would be torn down after all that was put into it. I hope it will be sold again and taken care of. We don't have many of these places left and it would be a shame to lose it!
My thoughts exactly.
Interesting to hear about someone's struggle with addiction so long ago. Many tend to think of it as a "modern day" problem and it clearly isn't.
Most people don't know what happened five minutes ago, let alone a hundred years ago. There's a reason the FDA was created.
Among all the many enjoyable aspects of your videos, one I appreciate the most is getting right into the subject matter after opening the video.
The tremendous amounts of wood used in this mansion is staggering. Folks who are familiar with lumber know how long it takes to grow an oak tree! (It took my family 56 years to nurture 200 English Black Walnut trees from 15-20 inch slips to just a moderate diameter). The younger generation now is beginning their own stands. Nurturing the environment, and keeping valuable flora/fauna should be everyone's work. When some of these mansions get razed, the whole earth weeps.
Thank you. Our late mother (1920-2022!) reared five of us by herself as a schoolteacher in a small town .She was an environmentalist, conservator, and equal rights' champion. We were very frugal, yet well-graced with music lessons, libraries, and play. We each also earned college plus graduate degrees. With four of us living, and in our late 70's and early 80's, we see many younger folks keeping this old earth alive and well for all of its inhabitants. It takes work, but the rewards are lovely. May peace be with you and yours.
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Interesting story. I'm old enough to have banked at Crocker Bank before it was purchased by Wells Fargo Bank. I like this video length of around five minutes. Very manageable. Ernest Hemingway said that it's easy to write long but difficult to write with brevity. Good job. 😀👍‼️
You put so.much work into these and it shows. I appreciate all of the proper terms. Really helps to understand what things are. Thanks for the videos.
It is located in Mahwah, New Jersey. A wealthy area in northeastern New Jersey. The odds are good it won't get knocked down for the foreseeable future.
Love this content! My only (petty) issue is that I had to look up the location to put it in perspective cuz I live on the west coast lol! A quick image of the location on a map would be so appreciated. But I truly appreciate your channel and the interesting info you present. Thank you!
I know what you mean. I kind of know Mahwah from the college & a friends BIL owned a restaurant in town but I’d never heard of Darlington or know where abouts it was.
I hope it is purchased as a home since so many of these houses have been lost or destroyed
So sad that they never got to enjoy the house. Thanks for this. I didn't know it existed.
Beautiful house, I really like the painted beams in the library! I hope the house has a bright future, especially since it sounds like it is in good condition.
Looks more like a high school than a house.
Yes, it looks more institutional than domestic.
How do i enroll????
Or a small girl's college.
That house is gigantic. There are some really lovely old homes in N. J.
I was thinking that very same thing.
Totally!👍
Finally, a happy ending! Just a little criminal activity and a government seizure. This is how desperate your audience is to have the story not end with the wrecking ball Ken. It is to be hoped that there is a future, still, for this magnificent building.
It’s a shame the original owners didn’t get to live in their mansion for very long.
I really hope and pray the government doesn’t tear it down. So much was put into this mansion, it deserves to stay and hopefully be used.
Definitely has an institutional vibe to it. I love old houses, and I don't like the way this one looks. Sort of like the Bishop's Palace in Detroit (largest house in the city and currently on the market. They look like buildings, and not houses.
I live around the corner from this place.
Beautiful! As a side note...I do believe i saw you on an episode of Hoarders last week❤ I was so excited!
Thank you ❤😊
Such a sad story overall. The conclusion was a big surprise!
The Crocker-Mcmillin mansions casual breakfast room look more formal than my grandparents formal Dining room
It would make a beautiful hotel.
Another gorgeous one!
Put me in mind of Montacute House, UK. 😄
Who the h*ll needs a house that massive? 😅
Actually, I don't think it is New Jersey's biggest house - Shadow Lawn in Long Branch is larger and I think Blairsden in Peapack is close in size and the Twombly Mansion, Florham in Madison is considerably larger. Of note, Brite designed a mansion in Glen Clove, LI for the Pratt family, now the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture that looks very similar to Darlington but is smaller.
I love Blairsden. All the fountains, gates, bridges & stairs leading up to it are so cool. Grew up near Monmouth College. Saw Shadowlawn a lot.
Jack-oh-bee-un. Even emphasis on each syllable.
Thank heaven you were able to correct him-oh, the sheer terror of his error.
Love your videos but wish you would pronounce Jacobean properly. It’s Jack-o-be-an as in the correct English style
Oh, my-the horrors of it all. What a sin he committed. Please, never try to converse with folks with English as another language, or folks from the South, or a lot of foreigners-they can be so poorly spoken. And never travel-you will be exhausted. LOL, LOL, LOL.
@@kathleenardrey5094 I would rather be corrected once than be mispronouncing something for the rest of my life. I suppose you think otherwise.
Full size organ? Sold!
I don't see the link for their Manhattan mansion.
Hopefully, they don't tear it down
I'd buy it if I won one of those $1billion dollar lotto jackpots 😉
Library and not books? Regardless is beautiful.
Hmm !? The Department of Treasury is in possession of this house. Something ain't right ?! 🤔
What does the Treasury do since the Rothschilds own the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation ... ?
As long as he was a happy drunk 🤷🏼
Wait...is this the real-life Billy Madison?
That's too fancy for me lol.
Who owns it?
This place was found not built. Appreciate your bedtime story though.
You’re stupid and crazy. There’s literally pictures of its construction.
It'll be sold for pennies on the dollar at a government auction to a uber wealthy man.
Noooo😮
It will be Kamala’s house of pleasure
Its almost like everyone who gets rich does so illegally...
Maybe the fomer owners good and dear friend Trump will buy it back for him.
Maybe, someone will run a line of coke down each hallway and let Hunter do his thing.