10:53 you say that as a carpenter, you cant imagine undertaking such a task, especially with no power tools, and that really struck me. I have been on an "old world" buildings binge for the last few years lol, and I was recently obsessed with the old English Manor houses and palaces. I always thought of the amount of time that carving all of the details and stuff into wood would take and literally every time I watch one of these videos, I envision myself attempting to carve the stuff into wood myself. I would imagine that such a beautiful room, if done by hand, would take years, and would be the foundation or bulk of a carpenters career. Thats not even mentioning the stonemasons work in that room for such highly textured walls. That room is one of the most beautiful rooms that I have ever seen! That picture and the lighting does that ceiling no justice, it is a masterpiece! If people think that I am exaggerating, the doors named "the gates of paradise", made by Lorenzo Ghiberti in the mid 1400's without power tools took 27 years to make. But look them up, they are probably some of the most amazing doors you will ever see. True craftsmanship takes time and epic works like this room would have taken YEARS.
I couldn't agree more. When you endeavour to build something beautiful...it becomes all consuming. I'm so tired of hearing about the architects and money men. As if a drawing is all that's needed to put these things together....then any old idiot/criminal/slave can cobble it together based on a sketch. We need to think logically when taking the old world construction into consideration. Thank you for adding to the conversation..
@@oldworldex Agreed. I am not a carpenter but is it safe to say that most of this work would be done offsite with perhaps many carpenters carving and doing the custom work by hand, based on measurements taken beforehand. Then these pieces would be sent over by rail or even ship and then assembled/created once the house was ready for the work? Would that be how this magnificent work would be done back then in these mansions? Sorry if that seems like an odd question, it's more curiosity. Thanks in advance.
I looked up the doors. Wow absolutely magnificent ! The pics online will never do them justice. Thanks for mentioning these. I've been to Prague twice now and the craftsmanship of buildings and statues dated back to the 1300s or before blew my mind. They're known for woodworking and glass to this day and these are skills honed over generations. It saddened me to come home and see how we've destroyed so much beauty here.
Clark was such an interesting man. His story is laid out in the book Empty Mansions. He was richer than the likes of there Vanderbilt and Rockefellers. He did some really amazing things regarding the development of the west coast USA. The winding staircase in home in this video, I believe is said to be in the bottom of the Hudson today or maybe just off the shores in the ocean by NYC. I forget exactly where now. All the success Clark made in the US was AFTER he turned SIXTY years old. I believe Hougette was born after he turned Sixty. I thought the book was incredibly interesting and fun. He had rooms made of gold brought over from England/Europe. I read the book almost a decade ago. But, I thought it was incredibly interesting. His daughter was very much a recluse. She lived her last twenty years in a hospital......her choice. She also bought a huge property in CT. A place to go to Incase there was a war. But, there never was a war in the US in her lifetime. So she never visited that property. Not even before she bought it. She also owned a property in CA that is now the Bellosguardo Foundation in Santa Monica an art charity and organization. She visited this huge estate with only her mum. She really never had many friends. She loved art. She owned five, I think apartments in NYC. They were all filled with her art. But, I don't believe she ever sold any of her art. I think it is all at Bellosguardo now. The book really is interesting. The creater here ought to read it. Then redo this video ...with lower music and more interesting narration! There is a whole lot that is unique to this mansion and her family. Hougette inherited the most money of anyone ever in that time. Even more than Rockafellers, Vanderbilt's and all of those families of that time. If the author is really a craftsman, there are lots of cool stories in the book- Empty Mansions. The Montana home was not Hougetts. That was her father's and her family lived there for a short time. The picture with the two girls is Hougette and her sister. Read the book and you'll find what happened to her sister. Which also leads to the creation of the Girl Scouts of America! Just a couple of other memories from the book. Clark sold off a large piece of property for a pittance because if did not contain any copper. That piece of property later became Las Vegas! He also was a senator for one term in Montana, I believe. His time as a senator ended over supposed scandal. I think Clark County NV, was named after him and he also named a Helena, MT during a competition with the director of the Anaconda Mining Company. A company my father, also very successful in Copper worked for in his early career. Read the book. It's fun! ;) ;)
Thats a youtube comment! Richer than the Vanderbilts & the Rockefellers?? Now that's......rich. Sounds like all the answers can be found in the book. Thanks for your contribution here....the Old World is so interesting...
I started to read that book. When Hugette said JP Morgan was sitting at the table at lunch, thats all I needed to know. I stopped reading. I knew the whole narrative about the house was a farce. No way could that have been built in 1911. I listen to my gut and pray for discernment. I really wish people would wake up!
Construction on the house began in 1897 although I would have thought more like 1880. It was finished in 1911. I think he ditched the first plans for it and settled on what you've shown so he could properly house his artworks. It wasn't brickwork on the outside, it was carved granite stone. The roof incorporated french straight mansard with elements of 1500's renaissance Italian window casing elements that hid some of the mansard roof. 5:34 shows it well. The interiors were copied from the Versaille or French chateaus styles. The reception room was brought from a chateau in Paris. St. Petersburg Winter Palace was copied from the french style of Versailles.
I Just cant understand how this was done in 15 years, and were these carvings done on site and where in the hell did ALL of these craftsmen come from and who trained them because this was going on all across this nation and others. Thats years of experiance per man to acheve some of that detailed finish work.
@@Thesaurcery4U2C It’s well-documented that many of these palaces and mansions had entire rooms from French chateaus or Italian villas dismantled, shipped, and reassembled. It is also known that many artisans would be either brought from places like Italy, Germany, or Great Britain, to work, and some would ultimately settle in the states (or places like Argentina, Uruguay, etc.). Do also not underestimate the usage and mastery of concrete and plaster molding, which is the majority of how things like rustication, cornices, and reliefs, were made. What saddens me is that many of the demolitions were carried-out wholesale, with these precious interiors rendered to rubble.
@@sergpie I do agree 100% with you. In my country, Argentina, the ruling class was composed of landowners, not industrialists or entrepreneurs like in the USA, however they were awfully wealthy, like their North American counterparts. Between 1880 and 1920 they build enormous, and mostly beautiful, mansions. Most of the craftsmen were imported from Europe, particularly from France and Italy. The fate of these mansions was very sad; most of them were demolished out of stupidity, indifference or greed. Many of the men who built these mansions were idiots who squandered their fortunes in European casinos or in extravagant parties leaving their children with no money to maintain their fabulous homes. Like you, I feel very sad when I think in the beautiful buildings that were destroyed, in many cases needlessly.
The same narrative was used in your country as it was in the US. 1880-1920’s they built all of these buildings. It’s just not possible. These buildings are much older than that and we inherited them. The reason there wasn’t any money is because the inheritors weren’t bright enough to make more money. The money they had was given to them and of course squandered.
I have a hunch about the way materials were brought to a construction site like this. I think they would have built temporary rails, and train cars would carry the heavy stones, bricks, and other such stuff directly to the location.
This was a damn great video bud ! I am a carpenter and roofer . Also , skilled at working with slate roofed buildings . NO buildings in Harvard , MIT , Boston area in general , construct buildings that can even support the weight of the slate roof style . The buildings I have worked on , all over Cambridge and the City , the interior support structures (not seen by general public) drop my jaw . as a carpenter AND roofer , it is just "how the hell did they do this !" . I said this to myself YEARS ago before channels like yours came onto the scene , shedding light . MUCH appreciated bud !
Several of the rooms in the Clark mansion were bought & removed from an 18th century French chateau, disassembled numbered and reassembled. The quantity of craftsman’s available was numerous, and old world trained. Coal was king when it came to heating, and it dirty. So many of the buildings started to look dirty in just a few years. Sandstone showed it to well. And there is a photo of the driveway entrance to the mansion under construction. The exterior of the mansion was all cut limestone, he owned the quarry. I believe it was the first home in NYC to have filtered air conditioning. The organ was the largest at the time ever installed in a resident. Great video!
@@darrryldorthee231 look up Agecroft Hall in Richmond Virginia. Tudor manor house built in England in the 1400’s, it was disassembled put on ships and reassembled in Richmond. It’s a great tour if you’re ever in Virginia.
When I first heard about Hugette Clark and her father I also decided to do more research.The girl in one of the photos is the sister of Hugette Clark this young lady died at 17 years old she was the older sister. Senator Clark had actually been married twice before he met his young wife and those two wives both died tragic deaths. Senator Clark had more children from his previous marriages. Miss Clark only got $60 million when Senator Clark died but at the time of her passing when she was 105 years old she was worth $300 million. It is quite a fascinating tale about this woman she was very down to earth very kind and the worst people were the children the great great grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Senator Clark from his first wife they demanded money from Miss Clark. How dare these people I don’t care who they were how dare that they sue in order to get money from her when she didn’t want anything to do with them. When Senator Clark originally when he died he left only 1/6 of his money to his daughter Hugette The other children were well taken care of.90 years after the death of Senator Clark those people came out of the woodwork like roaches
Thank you for sharing this window into the gilded age, if only the world had appreciated the contribution of all the artisans that work on this palace. This mansion could have had a reinvention. Sadly our disposable culture prevailed.
Great video as usual. It is astonishing to me the nerve of people who come to a content creator's channel and leave comments whining and crying about the music the creator chose or the volume of it compared to the narration. I mean, get a fucking life, people. This guy has created volumes of highly interesting historical content for your viewing pleasure, charged you no fee for doing so, and you are learning a thing or two in the process yet you are actually going to come here and bitch and moan about the background music? What an unbelievably petty, outlandishly rude, and oh so basic way to operate.
Thanks for getting my back...I'm not worried about it. I'm workin on getting better at making the videos and glad what I'm doing is reaching people and sparking something.
@@oldworldex you're welcome. I know you are not worried about it and I just want to focus on the good, but damn it, people get on my nerves sometimes 🤣
It looks very similar to the 1906 portion of the Ritz Hotel in London - it’s actually even more elaborate than that but the stone is the same and the mansard roof is the same scale. The reason it appears to have centuries worth of weathering is because the air is so dirty. In the Republic of Ireland most people still have open fires that they burn coal and peat in - that’s the main way most homes are still heated in ireland - and for this very reason no one who lives in a town or city in ireland paints their house white - because literally in just a few short years the soot and dirt from the pollution caused by the open fires makes any new paint job look decades old in just a couple of years. New York at the turn of the 20th century was far more industrial than it is today - there were loads of factories on the island of Manhattan spewing out all sorts of dirt and pollution into type atmosphere. And for a Portland stone building such as this - it literally acts like Velcro for dirt particles. Add to that all the open fires people still had in their homes until the 1920s. Tye use of automobiles became more prevalent and when gasoline had lead added to it from 1921 onwards - the lead ended up on the buildings - a good example of how filthy leaded petrol for cars was is if you look at a colour photograph of Big Ben in London from the 1960s - leaded gas has only been used for 40 years and by the 1960s the Big Ben clock tower looked charcoal black - if you then compare that to an image of Big Ben today after an extensive clean - the honeycomb colour is such a remarkable contrast and improvement. So the reason the Clarke house looked so much older than it was is simply pollution.
All that money and work and they only let it stand sixteen years? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Oh, and the weathering? That's because...reasons. The more you look into this...
It has never before occurred to me until this video but, for some reason, it did at some point when i was watching this...but perhaps a reason why so many of these mansions were destroyed after such a short time in existence was because of the activities and events (i.e. Satanic Rituals, blood sacrifices, adrenochrome harvesting, witchcraft, sorcery) that took place inside of these homes. Perhaps rather than sell the tainted and haunted mansion to an unwitting buyer who would have to deal with the karmic fallout and/or tortured souls resulting from those activities, who might even publicly hold the previous owners responsible for it or possibly even discover some damning evidence from the tragic events remaining on the property that could be used against them, the owners of these mansions simply had them demolished after removing the artwork and other valuables including building materials, decor, and fixtures. To me, this theory makes more sense than assuming these extremely wealthy people were so frivolous on a level such as this.
It's possible. My thinking is these places existed for a longer period of time than we are told and couldn't continue standing without raising suspicion. Could have easily been used for nefarious purposes by nefarious people in the meantime. The destruction of these buildings is in itself a ritual sacrifice..
@@jobskinner833 I am laughing so hard right now after reading your comment that I started crying. I am pretty sure they were mostly Democrats but we must always remember that Evil crosses over into all party lines 😂🤣😅
Enjoyed this excellent trace down of this episode,Love the music choice maybe a slight bit softer in the background.Love love ❤️ Your work on this, Clark home.😁👏👏💖
I have just discovered your channel. I was interested in this strange, almost bizarre, but gorgeous building since I discovered its existence. A typical example of the extravagance of some billionaires but also of the criminal indifference of the American society of those days towards architectural and artistic treasures. On the other hand, what can be expected of a society/country built on the idea of making money (a.k.a. as "the American dream")?
They said it was demolished and replaced with a high- rise luxury apartment building. Nothing could compare to the luxury this house showed- such a shame to waste all that talent and materials it took to build it. I wonder if they salvaged any of the interiors before demolition. Anyone know?
It was no custom in the twenties and thirties to rescue the intrincate interior decoration from victorian-edwardian mansions to be demolished... no matter how expensive were in their total cost.
@@edgarpoinsot5502 This is true in many cases; it’s very rare that these interiors are saved, barring fixtures and artworks. They would purchase, disassemble, ship, and then reassemble entire ballrooms, libraries, parlors, etc. from palaces and chateaus in Italy or France; only to have them devoured and disposed of by myopic speculation.
@@sergpie In fact, just until the early 70's the private antique architecture began to be valorated and preserved; sometimes the whole building, or only rescuing the artistic interiors.
Great showcase. Their home was magnificent. That staircase and the unique brickwork had to of taken some time time to create. Interesting that they 3 states involved with their wealth ( Arizona, Montana and NY). That copper must have been quite the boom. Copper is making a come back with electroculture gardening and anons discovering health benefits of copper. Folks are buying copper cups,jewelry and utensils. Is it me or is Uget less feminine than one might think? I know women looked differently in the previous eras so trying not to put my current day spin on things. Maybe I've seen too much modern day deception. She just caught my attention. If her ceilings were copper. Curious if someone had to maintain them or just let the aging process happen naturally.
@@oldworldex I watch a lot of historical content on UA-cam. Frequently background music overpowers the narrative; I assume it's not easy to adjust the volume on the background??
@@bocachucka Well I'm just learning how to edit these. I was thinking I could do the talking without background then let the background music play for a time while just showing visuals without dialogue. Rather than keeping the music for the entire video..
@@oldworldex That might work. I'm sure there are various ways to make it work. I think of those Ken Burns movies that used a lot of still photographs; he also used a lot of music. In the Civil War series his background music seemed slow and subdued and mostly music of the period being shown in the photos. Anyway,, I think you made a really good video in many ways. Good luck to you.
I actually enjoyed the music…but the volume of your voice seems a little lost because the music seems louder. Still, a great and informative video nevertheless, thanks!
Ok, after a cursory review, trying to remember all this, birthday was 6/9/1906; 1928 newspaper comic showing her at age 22 "getting ready to go out and spend her allotted $333 per day"; in a garage @ her mansion in CA, there were found to be a 1933 Cadillac and a 1933 Chrysler Royal 8, both "unused" and both having plates dated 1949; she had 3 homes in 3 states but chose to live the last 20 yrs of her life in a room in Beth Israel Hospital, but "not due to any medical condition". So, there you have it.
In it's day, it was considered an ugly monstrosity. The architectual firm Clark hired grew frustrated with him for continuously altering the plans, even after construction started. He kept adding embellishments and additions that delayed construction and added to the costs. That's why it took 14 years to complete. When it was finished New York society panned the results as being tasteless and over-done. Even the news papers of the day were critical of it, and Clark never achieved his dream of being accepted by high society. When he passed, his widow quickly sold the house and moved out. It was demolished only14 years after it was built.
How many thousands of buildings from this era met a very similar fate. The materials used would last 100 plus years, like the ones still remaining, but so many were tore down or caught fire in 10 or 20 years. How can people be so FOOLISH With there fortune yet somehow smart enough to keep it
That's a bunch of bologna. Where are the work orders from the construction company? One absolutely needs to revamp all the paper work, time and time again keeping up with his demands if this was true. The construction company would have a mountain of architectural plans for this. Did they just vanish? direct me to the multiple mechanical drawings.
@@mysteriesoftherealm The Wikipedia article on the mansion is quite convincing, and supplies reliable sources that date to the time of the house's construction: such as the New York Times, the Pittsburg Press, and Architectual Record. As for my directing you to the building plans of a house that no longer exists, constructed 111 years ago, and demolished 97 years ago, that's way above my pay grade. It's also a bit ridiculous. Just read the news paper articles from back then.
Lots of info, some incorrect. Buildings, I’m afraid, with that amount of weathering, not made in 1900’s or 1800’s for that matter. Could be 400-500 years old. I would enjoy watching a group of craftsman create what is left, and the enthusiasm in destroying buildings in the 1850’s to 1900’s, until we could get a really good war started to blow them up for the sake of freedom, well that was really astounding. Ever wonder why those great Worlds Fairs stopped, how they tore down the buildings after the fairs, no need after the good wars started. Look at LiDAR on many countries close to larges cities, or even under them. Folks, you have been bamboozled!!
1:04 left : Louise Amelia Andrée Clark (1902-1919), her sister. I find your video particularly ill-informed, especially since so much has been published since Huguette's death in 2011.
Lose the music...really distracting, annoying, too loud and can't hear the narration. Tried to watch the whole thing, but the music ruined it....it's too bad because it looked interesting.
The beauty of these buildings , eras , can never be surpassed, thankyou ,
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you say that as a carpenter, you cant imagine undertaking such a task, especially with no power tools, and that really struck me. I have been on an "old world" buildings binge for the last few years lol, and I was recently obsessed with the old English Manor houses and palaces. I always thought of the amount of time that carving all of the details and stuff into wood would take and literally every time I watch one of these videos, I envision myself attempting to carve the stuff into wood myself. I would imagine that such a beautiful room, if done by hand, would take years, and would be the foundation or bulk of a carpenters career.
Thats not even mentioning the stonemasons work in that room for such highly textured walls. That room is one of the most beautiful rooms that I have ever seen! That picture and the lighting does that ceiling no justice, it is a masterpiece!
If people think that I am exaggerating, the doors named "the gates of paradise", made by Lorenzo Ghiberti in the mid 1400's without power tools took 27 years to make. But look them up, they are probably some of the most amazing doors you will ever see. True craftsmanship takes time and epic works like this room would have taken YEARS.
I couldn't agree more. When you endeavour to build something beautiful...it becomes all consuming. I'm so tired of hearing about the architects and money men. As if a drawing is all that's needed to put these things together....then any old idiot/criminal/slave can cobble it together based on a sketch. We need to think logically when taking the old world construction into consideration. Thank you for adding to the conversation..
@@oldworldex Agreed. I am not a carpenter but is it safe to say that most of this work would be done offsite with perhaps many carpenters carving and doing the custom work by hand, based on measurements taken beforehand. Then these pieces would be sent over by rail or even ship and then assembled/created once the house was ready for the work? Would that be how this magnificent work would be done back then in these mansions? Sorry if that seems like an odd question, it's more curiosity. Thanks in advance.
Yes I'd say much of it would be done in a shop based on building measurements.@@vickierodriguez4280
I looked up the doors. Wow absolutely magnificent ! The pics online will never do them justice.
Thanks for mentioning these.
I've been to Prague twice now and the craftsmanship of buildings and statues dated back to the 1300s or before blew my mind. They're known for woodworking and glass to this day and these are skills honed over generations.
It saddened me to come home and see how we've destroyed so much beauty here.
Huguette Clark checked herself into Beth Israel hospital in NYC and willingly stayed there for 20 years until she died.
Volume too low, "background" music too loud. Barely hear narrator.
Clark was such an interesting man. His story is laid out in the book Empty Mansions. He was richer than the likes of there Vanderbilt and Rockefellers. He did some really amazing things regarding the development of the west coast USA.
The winding staircase in home in this video, I believe is said to be in the bottom of the Hudson today or maybe just off the shores in the ocean by NYC. I forget exactly where now. All the success Clark made in the US was AFTER he turned SIXTY years old. I believe Hougette was born after he turned Sixty. I thought the book was incredibly interesting and fun. He had rooms made of gold brought over from England/Europe. I read the book almost a decade ago. But, I thought it was incredibly interesting. His daughter was very much a recluse. She lived her last twenty years in a hospital......her choice. She also bought a huge property in CT. A place to go to Incase there was a war. But, there never was a war in the US in her lifetime. So she never visited that property. Not even before she bought it.
She also owned a property in CA that is now the Bellosguardo Foundation in Santa Monica an art charity and organization. She visited this huge estate with only her mum. She really never had many friends. She loved art. She owned five, I think apartments in NYC. They were all filled with her art. But, I don't believe she ever sold any of her art. I think it is all at Bellosguardo now.
The book really is interesting. The creater here ought to read it. Then redo this video ...with lower music and more interesting narration! There is a whole lot that is unique to this mansion and her family. Hougette inherited the most money of anyone ever in that time. Even more than Rockafellers, Vanderbilt's and all of those families of that time.
If the author is really a craftsman, there are lots of cool stories in the book- Empty Mansions.
The Montana home was not Hougetts. That was her father's and her family lived there for a short time.
The picture with the two girls is Hougette and her sister. Read the book and you'll find what happened to her sister. Which also leads to the creation of the Girl Scouts of America!
Just a couple of other memories from the book. Clark sold off a large piece of property for a pittance because if did not contain any copper. That piece of property later became Las Vegas! He also was a senator for one term in Montana, I believe. His time as a senator ended over supposed scandal. I think Clark County NV, was named after him and he also named a Helena, MT during a competition with the director of the Anaconda Mining Company. A company my father, also very successful in Copper worked for in his early career.
Read the book. It's fun! ;) ;)
Thats a youtube comment! Richer than the Vanderbilts & the Rockefellers?? Now that's......rich. Sounds like all the answers can be found in the book. Thanks for your contribution here....the Old World is so interesting...
I started to read that book. When Hugette said JP Morgan was sitting at the table at lunch, thats all I needed to know. I stopped reading. I knew the whole narrative about the house was a farce. No way could that have been built in 1911. I listen to my gut and pray for discernment. I really wish people would wake up!
You vill eats ze bugs, own nutzing, and be happy!! Oh, and, what a building!!
Construction on the house began in 1897 although I would have thought more like 1880. It was finished in 1911. I think he ditched the first plans for it and settled on what you've shown so he could properly house his artworks. It wasn't brickwork on the outside, it was carved granite stone. The roof incorporated french straight mansard with elements of 1500's renaissance Italian window casing elements that hid some of the mansard roof. 5:34 shows it well. The interiors were copied from the Versaille or French chateaus styles. The reception room was brought from a chateau in Paris. St. Petersburg Winter Palace was copied from the french style of Versailles.
I Just cant understand how this was done in 15 years, and were these carvings done on site and where in the hell did ALL of these craftsmen come from and who trained them because this was going on all across this nation and others. Thats years of experiance per man to acheve some of that detailed finish work.
@@Thesaurcery4U2CYou're exactly right! It blows me away. I guess you woulda had to have been there. Sure glad I wasn't lol.
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It’s well-documented that many of these palaces and mansions had entire rooms from French chateaus or Italian villas dismantled, shipped, and reassembled. It is also known that many artisans would be either brought from places like Italy, Germany, or Great Britain, to work, and some would ultimately settle in the states (or places like Argentina, Uruguay, etc.). Do also not underestimate the usage and mastery of concrete and plaster molding, which is the majority of how things like rustication, cornices, and reliefs, were made.
What saddens me is that many of the demolitions were carried-out wholesale, with these precious interiors rendered to rubble.
@@sergpie I do agree 100% with you. In my country, Argentina, the ruling class was composed of landowners, not industrialists or entrepreneurs like in the USA, however they were awfully wealthy, like their North American counterparts. Between 1880 and 1920 they build enormous, and mostly beautiful, mansions. Most of the craftsmen were imported from Europe, particularly from France and Italy.
The fate of these mansions was very sad; most of them were demolished out of stupidity, indifference or greed. Many of the men who built these mansions were idiots who squandered their fortunes in European casinos or in extravagant parties leaving their children with no money to maintain their fabulous homes. Like you, I feel very sad when I think in the beautiful buildings that were destroyed, in many cases needlessly.
The same narrative was used in your country as it was in the US. 1880-1920’s they built all of these buildings. It’s just not possible. These buildings are much older than that and we inherited them. The reason there wasn’t any money is because the inheritors weren’t bright enough to make more money. The money they had was given to them and of course squandered.
The beautiful staircase at 12:53 was loaded onto a scow and dumped at sea after it found no takers.
I have a hunch about the way materials were brought to a construction site like this. I think they would have built temporary rails, and train cars would carry the heavy stones, bricks, and other such stuff directly to the location.
agreed...then there's the lifting of the heavy stuff..
This was a damn great video bud ! I am a carpenter and roofer . Also , skilled at working with slate roofed buildings . NO buildings in Harvard , MIT , Boston area in general , construct buildings that can even support the weight of the slate roof style . The buildings I have worked on , all over Cambridge and the City , the interior support structures (not seen by general public) drop my jaw . as a carpenter AND roofer , it is just "how the hell did they do this !" . I said this to myself YEARS ago before channels like yours came onto the scene , shedding light . MUCH appreciated bud !
Several of the rooms in the Clark mansion were bought & removed from an 18th century French chateau, disassembled numbered and reassembled. The quantity of craftsman’s available was numerous, and old world trained. Coal was king when it came to heating, and it dirty. So many of the buildings started to look dirty in just a few years. Sandstone showed it to well. And there is a photo of the driveway entrance to the mansion under construction. The exterior of the mansion was all cut limestone, he owned the quarry. I believe it was the first home in NYC to have filtered air conditioning. The organ was the largest at the time ever installed in a resident. Great video!
All mysteries solved....
Rooms assembled just like a modern ikea bedroom set..that a new one.
Wow so he bought rooms, disassembled them , shipped it across and ocean and set it up in his house!!!! Wow. Totally makes sense.
Thank you for that
@@darrryldorthee231 look up Agecroft Hall in Richmond Virginia. Tudor manor house built in England in the 1400’s, it was disassembled put on ships and reassembled in Richmond. It’s a great tour if you’re ever in Virginia.
When I first heard about Hugette Clark and her father I also decided to do more research.The girl in one of the photos is the sister of Hugette Clark this young lady died at 17 years old she was the older sister. Senator Clark had actually been married twice before he met his young wife and those two wives both died tragic deaths. Senator Clark had more children from his previous marriages. Miss Clark only got $60 million when Senator Clark died but at the time of her passing when she was 105 years old she was worth $300 million. It is quite a fascinating tale about this woman she was very down to earth very kind and the worst people were the children the great great grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Senator Clark from his first wife they demanded money from Miss Clark. How dare these people I don’t care who they were how dare that they sue in order to get money from her when she didn’t want anything to do with them. When Senator Clark originally when he died he left only 1/6 of his money to his daughter Hugette The other children were well taken care of.90 years after the death of Senator Clark those people came out of the woodwork like roaches
I appreciate your passion and insight, and I think you've chosen the perfect music for your presentations.
I appreciate that!
Love the music, great choice.
Thank you for sharing this window into the gilded age, if only the world had appreciated the contribution of all the artisans that work on this palace. This mansion could have had a reinvention. Sadly our disposable culture prevailed.
Thxx for sharing !! Wonderful!!
Sad to hear its gone now !! 🥴😬
So beautiful. I wonder if the copper would have come from the copper mines in the UP OF MICHIGAN?
Why so few subscribers?? This channel is way under-rated.
Gratitude
❤🙏......just started this thing a couple weeks back. Needed to get my angle out there...
Great video as usual. It is astonishing to me the nerve of people who come to a content creator's channel and leave comments whining and crying about the music the creator chose or the volume of it compared to the narration. I mean, get a fucking life, people. This guy has created volumes of highly interesting historical content for your viewing pleasure, charged you no fee for doing so, and you are learning a thing or two in the process yet you are actually going to come here and bitch and moan about the background music? What an unbelievably petty, outlandishly rude, and oh so basic way to operate.
Thanks for getting my back...I'm not worried about it. I'm workin on getting better at making the videos and glad what I'm doing is reaching people and sparking something.
Thank you
@@oldworldex you're welcome. I know you are not worried about it and I just want to focus on the good, but damn it, people get on my nerves sometimes 🤣
The Gilded Age was a trip
Thank you for your channel
It looks very similar to the 1906 portion of the Ritz Hotel in London - it’s actually even more elaborate than that but the stone is the same and the mansard roof is the same scale.
The reason it appears to have centuries worth of weathering is because the air is so dirty.
In the Republic of Ireland most people still have open fires that they burn coal and peat in - that’s the main way most homes are still heated in ireland - and for this very reason no one who lives in a town or city in ireland paints their house white - because literally in just a few short years the soot and dirt from the pollution caused by the open fires makes any new paint job look decades old in just a couple of years.
New York at the turn of the 20th century was far more industrial than it is today - there were loads of factories on the island of Manhattan spewing out all sorts of dirt and pollution into type atmosphere. And for a Portland stone building such as this - it literally acts like Velcro for dirt particles.
Add to that all the open fires people still had in their homes until the 1920s.
Tye use of automobiles became more prevalent and when gasoline had lead added to it from 1921 onwards - the lead ended up on the buildings - a good example of how filthy leaded petrol for cars was is if you look at a colour photograph of Big Ben in London from the 1960s - leaded gas has only been used for 40 years and by the 1960s the Big Ben clock tower looked charcoal black - if you then compare that to an image of Big Ben today after an extensive clean - the honeycomb colour is such a remarkable contrast and improvement.
So the reason the Clarke house looked so much older than it was is simply pollution.
great photos
Very interesting story.
121 rooms? That's like one family putting all there money together and they all lived together for generations
All that money and work and they only let it stand sixteen years? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Oh, and the weathering? That's because...reasons. The more you look into this...
Last shot: melted brick due to fervent heat, possibly total global grid meltdown.
It has never before occurred to me until this video but, for some reason, it did at some point when i was watching this...but perhaps a reason why so many of these mansions were destroyed after such a short time in existence was because of the activities and events (i.e. Satanic Rituals, blood sacrifices, adrenochrome harvesting, witchcraft, sorcery) that took place inside of these homes. Perhaps rather than sell the tainted and haunted mansion to an unwitting buyer who would have to deal with the karmic fallout and/or tortured souls resulting from those activities, who might even publicly hold the previous owners responsible for it or possibly even discover some damning evidence from the tragic events remaining on the property that could be used against them, the owners of these mansions simply had them demolished after removing the artwork and other valuables including building materials, decor, and fixtures. To me, this theory makes more sense than assuming these extremely wealthy people were so frivolous on a level such as this.
It's possible. My thinking is these places existed for a longer period of time than we are told and couldn't continue standing without raising suspicion. Could have easily been used for nefarious purposes by nefarious people in the meantime. The destruction of these buildings is in itself a ritual sacrifice..
Why, were they supposedly Democrats or something?
@@oldworldex Yes, I also agree the structures were already here...and yes, indeed they had them some serious Elimination Rituals.
@@jobskinner833 I am laughing so hard right now after reading your comment that I started crying. I am pretty sure they were mostly Democrats but we must always remember that Evil crosses over into all party lines 😂🤣😅
@@mlmiller6 😂
Enjoyed this excellent trace down of this episode,Love the music choice maybe a slight bit softer in the background.Love love ❤️ Your work on this, Clark home.😁👏👏💖
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I have just discovered your channel. I was interested in this strange, almost bizarre, but gorgeous building since I discovered its existence. A typical example of the extravagance of some billionaires but also of the criminal indifference of the American society of those days towards architectural and artistic treasures. On the other hand, what can be expected of a society/country built on the idea of making money (a.k.a. as "the American dream")?
Terrible shame that was torn down. Why?! What a waste!
Looks like this building was built for giants originally.
They said it was demolished and replaced with a high- rise luxury apartment building. Nothing could compare to the luxury this house showed- such a shame to waste all that talent and materials it took to build it. I wonder if they salvaged any of the interiors before demolition. Anyone know?
It was no custom in the twenties and thirties to rescue the intrincate interior decoration from victorian-edwardian mansions to be demolished... no matter how expensive were in their total cost.
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This is true in many cases; it’s very rare that these interiors are saved, barring fixtures and artworks.
They would purchase, disassemble, ship, and then reassemble entire ballrooms, libraries, parlors, etc. from palaces and chateaus in Italy or France; only to have them devoured and disposed of by myopic speculation.
@@sergpie In fact, just until the early 70's the private antique architecture began to be valorated and preserved; sometimes the whole building, or only rescuing the artistic interiors.
Well their a very transparent family !
Huguette Clark had a sister Andre, who died from meningitis at 16. She is shown in some of your photos.
Great showcase. Their home was magnificent. That staircase and the unique brickwork had to of taken some time time to create. Interesting that they 3 states involved with their wealth ( Arizona, Montana and NY). That copper must have been quite the boom. Copper is making a come back with electroculture gardening and anons discovering health benefits of copper. Folks are buying copper cups,jewelry and utensils.
Is it me or is Uget less feminine than one might think? I know women looked differently in the previous eras so trying not to put my current day spin on things. Maybe I've seen too much modern day deception. She just caught my attention.
If her ceilings were copper. Curious if someone had to maintain them or just let the aging process happen naturally.
house finished in 1911, destroyed in 1927😢
"Clark Curt"
Good content and narrative, but that background music is so annoyingly intrusive.
Thanks I appreciate the input..new at this.
@@oldworldex I watch a lot of historical content on UA-cam. Frequently background music overpowers the narrative; I assume it's not easy to adjust the volume on the background??
@@bocachucka Well I'm just learning how to edit these. I was thinking I could do the talking without background then let the background music play for a time while just showing visuals without dialogue. Rather than keeping the music for the entire video..
@@oldworldex That might work. I'm sure there are various ways to make it work. I think of those Ken Burns movies that used a lot of still photographs; he also used a lot of music. In the Civil War series his background music seemed slow and subdued and mostly music of the period being shown in the photos. Anyway,, I think you made a really good video in many ways. Good luck to you.
I actually enjoyed the music…but the volume of your voice seems a little lost because the music seems louder. Still, a great and informative video nevertheless, thanks!
That music is inappropriate for the film
Turn off the music
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Pretty sure that's a dude in the photo at 1:31...
they invert everything so....
@@oldworldex exactly... including their own children...
Ok, after a cursory review, trying to remember all this, birthday was 6/9/1906; 1928 newspaper comic showing her at age 22 "getting ready to go out and spend her allotted $333 per day"; in a garage @ her mansion in CA, there were found to be a 1933 Cadillac and a 1933 Chrysler Royal 8, both "unused" and both having plates dated 1949; she had 3 homes in 3 states but chose to live the last 20 yrs of her life in a room in Beth Israel Hospital, but "not due to any medical condition". So, there you have it.
@@mlmiller6 that's a lot of 3's
In it's day, it was considered an ugly monstrosity. The architectual firm Clark hired grew frustrated with him for continuously altering the plans, even after construction started. He kept adding embellishments and additions that delayed construction and added to the costs. That's why it took 14 years to complete. When it was finished New York society panned the results as being tasteless and over-done. Even the news papers of the day were critical of it, and Clark never achieved his dream of being accepted by high society. When he passed, his widow quickly sold the house and moved out. It was demolished only14 years after it was built.
How many thousands of buildings from this era met a very similar fate. The materials used would last 100 plus years, like the ones still remaining, but so many were tore down or caught fire in 10 or 20 years. How can people be so FOOLISH With there fortune yet somehow smart enough to keep it
That's a bunch of bologna.
Where are the work orders from the construction company?
One absolutely needs to revamp all the paper work, time and time again keeping up with his demands if this was true.
The construction company would have a mountain of architectural plans for this.
Did they just vanish?
direct me to the multiple mechanical drawings.
@@mysteriesoftherealm The Wikipedia article on the mansion is quite convincing, and supplies reliable sources that date to the time of the house's construction: such as the New York Times, the Pittsburg Press, and Architectual Record. As for my directing you to the building plans of a house that no longer exists, constructed 111 years ago, and demolished 97 years ago, that's way above my pay grade. It's also a bit ridiculous. Just read the news paper articles from back then.
I wonder how long it would have lasted had his wife not sold it. Such a beautiful building.
1:17 That really might be a dude
I like the music lol
Lots of info, some incorrect. Buildings, I’m afraid, with that amount of weathering, not made in 1900’s or 1800’s for that matter. Could be 400-500 years old. I would enjoy watching a group of craftsman create what is left, and the enthusiasm in destroying buildings in the 1850’s to 1900’s, until we could get a really good war started to blow them up for the sake of freedom, well that was really astounding. Ever wonder why those great Worlds Fairs stopped, how they tore down the buildings after the fairs, no need after the good wars started. Look at LiDAR on many countries close to larges cities, or even under them. Folks, you have been bamboozled!!
1:04 left : Louise Amelia Andrée Clark (1902-1919), her sister. I find your video particularly ill-informed, especially since so much has been published since Huguette's death in 2011.
United States Senator Jesse James.
The background music should be even more quiet during the narration.
Tone down the music.
Too bad the magnificent mansion only lasted 16 years. What a vandalic architectural crime !!
"Vandalic architectural crime" That's a spectacular phrase....I think I'll start using it...
Lose the music...really distracting, annoying, too loud and can't hear the narration. Tried to watch the whole thing, but the music ruined it....it's too bad because it looked interesting.
I’m not joking this is my great great grandfather my last name is Clark
Another squatter.
Boring commentary! When you are describing a mansion of such magnitude you truly need to be a lot more effusive.
So many gender inversions...
veil lifted 👀