Dream House Regrets: The Mansion That Wasn't Enough (Hempstead)
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2023
- Dive into the tale of Howard Gould, son of a railroad tycoon, who built his dream castle inspired by Ireland's Kilkenny Castle, only to decide he didn't like it!
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Interesting that he quickly tired of both houses, so not a surprise that he also married and divorced twice. Seems that in spite of all his money, he had trouble finding what would truly make him happy. The house is impressive, but I can't imagine living in such over-scaled grandeur.
Sounds like he like his yacht the best!
When I think of how unappreciative some 'too rich for their own good' people are, I also think of all of the hungry, homeless people in this world, who would enjoy a hot meal and warm bed, no matter how humble the setting and be grateful for their good fortune. So sad some have so much, and others have nothing. On a more positive note, at least the home generated jobs for over 200 people in its day, and is now serving a purpose as a tourist attraction for housing enthusiasts who appreciate superb architecture. It truly is a magnificent structure.
@@marcyking461 If you read about the Great Depression in the US in the 1930, some books describe how wealthy people with servants cut the servant's pay to make ends meet. Those "ends" included subsciptions to the Metropolitan Opera and similar. Club dues were always paid. The servants, predominantly Irish immigrants, mostly young women, were treated worse than the household dog. Money can make people think they are somehow a superior species from the rest of humanity.
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I appreciate your concern for others, this speaks well for you. ❤ ❤ ❤
He was waiting in vain for TikTok. He died 58 years too soon.
Alas...
Pipe organ in the stair hall, goals.
I've been on the grounds many times but never inside. So many Amazing craftsmen back in those days! Now, everything is computer run/planned, laser cut, etc.. So glad these still remain.
That place looks like anything that isn't mid evil just doesn't belong in it.
Wow I can't imagine being bored of that ever
I can just imagine the sun shining through all of those leaded windows. Magnificent!
I definitely sighed with relief that this castle survived, and still stands.
My favorite room would be the sunroom. There is no better way to create a sunroom than to include a surround of leaded glass windows. I wonder if the birds from the aviary were audible while enjoying that sunroom, too.
TRULY MAGICAL as a testament to the superhuman and magnificent construction and artistry of all the long gone Craftsmen that worked in and on the house. However, EQUALLY revolting in its nuclear powered materialism, egomania and greed with reference to Gould.
Beautiful castle, but it just doesn’t look like the kind of home you could feel comfortable in. Thank you for sharing 💜
Wow!! Extraordinary house..how could one not be happy? I think my favorite was the sunroom over the porte cochere. Thank you again
The sunroom was gorgeous:)
I really love the fireplace in his bedroom!
The new house was still like a castle inside. I wonder what the first house looked like!
The staircase and high ceiling was amazing.
I wish there had been more pictures of those magnificent stairs. No demolitions!
Oh! I designed a Wedding here. Full Gatsby Realness. Gold and Black. A rose petal runner stretching out to the sea. Highly glamorous.
Then, at the end, I found a bridesmaid passed out in a hedge, crawling with moths.
Classy, Kymberleigh, Classy.
Lol, its still long island, even if its the north shore
🤣🤣. That pretentious spelling of her name belied her Walmart behavior & alcoholism, didn’t it⁉️🤣
I’m from Port Washington NY! Sands Point is a very affluent part of Port Washington. Many movie stars and important people have lived there.
I too am from Port. Always proud of my home town!
The Goulds competed with the Vanderbilts in railroads and mansions, but nobody surpassed them.
Imagine being so rich and spoiled that a huge palatial mansion is not enough for you, you want something better.
People are stupid at times.
I loved the palm room.. with 271 employees that's like running a decent sized business.😅
Everything was more manually intensive then. Apart from all of the household cleaning of such a big house, imagine all the landscape raking by hand. No leaf blowers.
Amazing! I can't even fathom having a beautiful house(s) like that and that kind of money.
There were so many beautiful features that it’s almost hard to concentrate on anything in particular. The sunroom was lovely! I can’t even imagine having 200 extra people rattling around in my house😂 I think I would be happy with the sunroom and one of the more simple bedrooms and a small kitchen. I just can’t imagine living here. But it does look like the Guggenheim family had lots of kids so it must have been much nicer with a bigger family and noise and life.
Magnificent estate. I rather like the outside of the first castle, I wonder what the inside is like?
Ken, if you could swing it, the Benjamin Siegel house in Detroit just went up for sale. Right next door to that is the Kresge (K-Mart) house which has been for sale for the last 6 or so years. Both are magnificent mansions in their own right, and deserve videos if you could gather enough info and pictures, or even be able to do tours of them 😊
Anyways, just an idea, if you need more house suggestions for videos. The Fisher (Detroit) mansion video you did was excellent, and the Siegel & Kresge mansions are in the same area, just on the other side of Woodward Ave.
Wow! What a great burden to have so much money you need to build castles you don't even like. I love that gothic royal hunting lodge look, though at that scale it's pretty intimidating, and as other say, not at all cozy. Bring it down to a manageable size, like a large Tudor Revival home with 4 bedrooms, and it would be my dream. I think it was the Winter Living Room that had the arched beam wooden ceiling; really stunning. Nothing like carved wood done just right by master craftsmen from these bygone eras. I've watched a few San Francisco real estate videos lately, and they make me want to cry. Such cute Victorians on the outside, but the interiors have been gutted and look like hotels, with lots of pale grey paint, white marble, and glass. Ugh.
Wooo both of those places are over the top . Such a shame to spend a fortune on a home . Waay to grand for me .
Money does not always bring happiness ! 😢
Great explanation ❤
Just magnificent .
Magnificent but it also screams with the agony wrecked on so many by the robber baron family's unscrupulousness.
This is some of my families history right here I am visiting it very soon
interestig video, thank you!
Those familiar with the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire, may recognize the Hempstead House stair hall standing in as that of the Commadore's mansion.
Love everything about the entrance, especially the doors "hidden in the shadows", and the entrance hall and staircase.
My 23rd ggf is Richard Fitzgilbert de Clare 2nd Earl of Pembroke whose family seat with Kilkenny although it was a wooden structure at that time. It then passed to my 22 ggm Isabel de Clare, suo jure 4th Countess of Pembroke who married William Marshal 1st Earl of PEMBROKE. Then into the de Broase family then to the de Bohun (Boone) family and finally to James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, and stayed in the Butler of Ormond until 1967 when James Arthur Norman Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde sold it.
Good thing the house survives still and has a new purpose. My favorite is the sun room the one with the birds. In those days the wealthy emulate royalty.
I wonder if these "castles" have ever been used as movie sets? The sunroom with the dancing lights from various colors of stained glass would be a awesome room to relax.
Proof money can't make you happy.
LOVED this video !
It is gorgeous inside! Wish I could post pictures. The first house became a stable and staff living space.
There is no way to make a house like that these days. No craftsmen.
Gorgeous house!!
Very nice, thank you!
It’s all beautiful but the palm court was my favorite. Now I’m asking myself where does one even source 300 yr old Spanish ceiling blocks and leather wallpaper! ?🧐
These houses are always beautiful to look at ,but in reality they are very large cold spaces and I believe the original owners would have much more satisfied with lower ceilings and warmer walls for a more cozy feel . You’d have to have a family of 20 living in there to not feel so lonely .
It was interesting to me how similar the interior layout and finishing were to Biltmore, although Biltmore was much more successfully realized.
Has this been featured in some movies. I'm sure I have seen it
Overly much, I feel. Trying too be too many things at once? Exterior is nice to look at, though....
Wow castle overkill. Too much.
I often wonder about these huge old houses.... how even was the heat during the winter.... in those big spaces..... there are a lot of areas with no fireplaces or radiators....hmmm ???
Most of these homes were built without heating systems, but used fireplaces and good design to maximize heat gain in the winter. However, many of these people had multiple homes, usually one in New York City that they used as their primary residence as well as country homes that were usually further out on Long Island, hunting lodges that would be further north and summer homes that would be in the carolinas. The large mansions along Long Islands Gold Coast were usually used as weekend homes and summer homes, for when it got very hot and stinky in the city.
Eventually, some of these homes would be modernized with electricity, heating and cooling systems and telephones, but unfortunately, a lot of them were simply torn down and redeveloped into subdevelopments.
Other than the palm court, I wasn't attracted by anything in the house. Too big and too cold. I was reminded of the Palm Court ice cream parlor in the Smithsonian, which I've visited many times.
Even the rooms with lots of windows seem dark and gloomy.
Help me Howard Gould ❤
How many sitting rooms do you need? 5:01
Funny place for a pipe organ! The front hall?
That beautiful staircase a structural engineering mystery to me. What supports that heavy oak? (I'm not an engineer)
The beams that hold up the landings were most likely passed through the stone wall and braced on the other side. Then, you connect the stairs to them, and they are held up by the landings. This is a classic design, dating back to medieval times and then perfected during the renaissance.
Every boy wants a castle and he just gave it up. I should be so rich.
Turns out castles are drafty and damp, and kinda creepy at night. People like mr gould didnt think about how castles were meant for fortification, not comfortable living.
@@Lv-nq9qz if he built it medieval specs he was just hopeless.
@@b003 he probably didnt build it to medieval specs, but at the time, windows were single pane, made of wood and used glaziers putty to keep the glass in place. They were only so good at keeping heat in. Wall insulation was rarely used and was made of wool, cotton or old newspapers and weren't really consistent.
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I would love to be in the sun room.
I am sorry Dear, but we will have to live in the steam yacht for a couple more months until they finish our second castle.
He most likely had a primary residence in Manhattan where he lived while all this was going on. My question is what was going on the the first castle while he was living in the second one? Was it just empty? Guest house? Did he airbnb it?
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I wonder if Peggy Guggenheim ever visited and what she thought of this house.
Were those original photos of the interior? If so, current ones might have made it easier to see. Just my thoughts.
Yesssss, those are the original photos of the house. You couldn’t tell from the deep sepia tones and blown out lighting and beat up blurriness⁉️🤯
No need to get nasty.@@greeneyedwarlock882
Who lives there now?
Come on now... Not built by these people, just occupied or found. That building was here for centuries....
Personally, I prefer original ideas over: replicate this & copy that mentality. I'm not surprised that he quickly became bored.
Impressive house but so was the 1st one. In don’t get super rich people. Nobody needs a house this big. Let alone 2 of them. Instead of paying so much money for these mansions, why not do something good with your money?
Yet another millionaire's ego-built monstrosity left to the taxpayer to maintain after they become bored with it or no longer want to pay to maintain it themselves. If they don't or can't care for their mansions then demolish it. Like your videos btw. 👍
Don’t the ultra rich kinda make you sick to your stomach?
Hate it!
The narration is somewhat of a joke.