History: 🌵 Clark is the Poster Boy for Corporatist, Social Climbing, Arrogance, Ego, and all that generally describes Political wins achieved through any means possible, be it the "Seat of a Senator", or Bills that give "Fat Profits to Corporations". He never visited Las Vegas or Southern Nevada, for in the early 1900's it was merely "a waste of dessert, Pautie Indians, and roaming Cowboys", not worthy of his time, in his opinion. Had he known what was to come, he would have planted the 1st cornerstone of a Bank and Hotel Casino, basking in the Glory of his Rich Namesake, "Clark County, Nevada". As it was, he was insulted by the naming, felt it beneath him to even make a Railroad stop there. The "Lower Mind aka Ego Mind" of man. Discernment rather than Judgemental. Often, the facts just speak for themselves. I lived in Clark County 17 wonderful years +/- ... Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian .
History: 🌵 Clark is the Poster Boy for Corporatist, Social Climbing, Arrogance, Ego, and all that generally describes Political wins achieved through any means possible, be it the "Seat of a Senator", or Bills that give "Fat Profits to Corporations". He never visited Las Vegas or Southern Nevada, for in the early 1900's it was merely "a waste of dessert, Pautie Indians, and roaming Cowboys", not worthy of his time, in his opinion. Had he known what was to come, he would have planted the 1st cornerstone of a Bank and Hotel Casino, basking in the Glory of his Rich Namesake, "Clark County, Nevada". As it was, he was insulted by the naming, felt it beneath him to even make a Railroad stop there. The "Lower Mind aka Ego Mind" of man. Discernment rather than Judgemental. Often, the facts just speak for themselves. I lived in Clark County 17 wonderful years +/- ... Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian
I’m from Santa Barbara, CA. William Clark built an amazing home on a cliff, next to the ocean. I would love to see a vid on the Clark Estate in Santa Barbra.
I love the excess of the mansion in Manhattan. I would just love to see it, although I agree, it was way over the top. I stayed in the Butte Copper King mansion in the 90s; it was being run as a bed and breakfast back then. I stayed with a big group of my family, and my two little nieces were certain it was filled with "ghosties". It was all red velvet, thick draperies, and every surface filled with statues, vases, bric-a-brac. The "more-is-more' Victorian look. Just a wonderful experience to stay there and wander around! Does anyone know if it is still a bed and breakfast? It is wonderful that it still exists!
I recognized some of the paintings in the 77th street mansion as part of William A. Clark's bequest to the Corcoran Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, the Corcoran closed a few years ago, and its collections have been absorbed into the National Gallery of Art.
THANK YOU ! I have always wanted to see interior photos of the NYC mansion. I think that the home was absolutely stunning even if it was “over the top”. All of your presentations are extremely impressive. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love your videos,great details and history ,but I don't like the endings,when these historical diamonds were demolished, what a great travel in time.thank you
I have always been interested in William Clark and his story. I never saw the inside of his NY mansion though I have seen photos of his mansion. I think it is pretty fantastic and magnificent. The design, carvings and intricacies of the building in my opinion were beautiful. It’s so so so sad that we have lost this home and so many others to “build and build and build.” 😢
I remember as a teenager getting to go on a tour of the Copper King mansion in Butte, Montana. It was pretty inside. I enjoyed getting to see what it was like back in the old days. I remember seeing their China collection which they used when guests would visit. It was pretty. They had fancy carved headboards on their beds and fancy lace curtains imported from Europe. It was interesting. 😊
The Copper King Mansion reminded me of Mark Twain’s Hartford home. Prefer it, but appreciate the Victorian style of reinstalling features from older homes into a new creation.
The gothic chimney breast and china hall in the Manhattan house are my favorite parts of the building. Pity it could not be maintained as a house museum, albeit architecturally ungainly.
Love the Copper King mansion interior. It has a lot of detail, yet still seems warm and inviting. The NYC mansion is spectacular both outside and inside. Fit for European royalty. Yet torn down so quickly 😥
lacking a railing, it would. These pics seem to date from the last days of the house - possibly the railing had already been removed, along with the bronze sculptures.
Ken, I wonder if any of the reassembled rooms where removed and saved or used elsewhere. I know I saw some at the MOMA in NYC. Most had been removed from big mansions.
Clark sure knew how to make the most of foreclosure. It seems the grander they are, the harder they fall. The foyer of the Manhattan mansion felt very cold to me, with all of the interior stone work looking like it belonged in a bank. I imagine the artwork was auctioned off or donated to museums. Hopefully the complete French rooms were repurposed elsewhere. In 1925 the Depression hadn't even gotten started. I think I prefer the Copper King house, which feels more homey. Thanks for the "Two-fer". :)
I found it fascinating in that he was largely forgotten until his daughter Huguette Clark was brought into the news. It was ostentatious and a bit of visual overload to see all this mixes in styles. Thanks, Ken for another fascinating vlog!
Wow. Love the Copper house. Such opulent furnishings in the mansion that took 14 years to build. Such a shame it was torn down for apartments. Thanks Ken
I have stayed in the mansion in Butte about 12 years ago when it was a bed and breakfast. The most fabulous feature was the stained glass windows reflecting Queen Anne architecture. It had an elegance. Yet, it had a domestic character. It was totally unlike the frankly poorly designed NYC mansion. The architectural design flaw that I thought was most egregious was the entry and the staircase. There was no light or focal point. What an architectural mess. Money doesn't buy taste. It reminds me of an equally mishmash of Henry Ford's mansion. Begun by Frank Lloyd Wright but soon abandoned by him. Ford like the Copper King rich guy was completely devoid of architectural taste. The term Nouveau Riche has some basis!
Interesting fact. The enormous tower was designed to be a safe place to retreat to in the event of a pandemic. The tower could be seen from everywhere in Central Park.
Thanks so much for showing these mansions! After seeing the Clark mansion in the 60’s in Butte, I developed my love for old houses. Thanks for letting me so many mansions I would never see in person. Love your channel 😊
Perhaps 'Clark's Folly' is a sad reminder of our shared Human Condition: all that work, grift, self-serving politics, double-dealing & foreclosing on others, he ended up with the rest of us: 6 feet under ... Think I'll take a break, smile at a stranger & smell the roses
I ask this totally out of ignorance. So please forgive me. Ken, when these houses were torn down surely all the trappings must have been saved. Like the woodwork and the fireplaces and all that. What on earth happened to all that?
AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE THE MONTANA MANSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THE ORNAMENTATION FROM THE MANHATTAN MANSION???????????????????
This Beaux-Arts mansion has its pic next to the word "waste" in the dictionary. Took almost more years to build than it stand fully finished, also had authentic chateau parts reused into this... It gives me nausea. After Clark's death nobody wanted what was considered out of style and a costy upkeep mammoth, so in the end developers acquired it simply for the land it was erected on...
According to Clarks Biography when they tore the mansion down They put the Marble Staircase on a Barge and took it out into the East River where it was uneventfully pushed into the deep. Never to be seen again. Crazy Read.
What a shame this splendid home was destroyed. It would have made an excellent embassy for some government, or a religious building, like the Kahn mansion, which still stands along 5th Avenue.
One of my favorites! The limestone exterior it not gaudy at all lol Bring on the carved limestone please! Was it electrified as part of its original construction? Thanks Ken!
Clark’s Folly was really breathtaking to say the least.!! Unique architecture on the exterior but palatial and gorgeous details from the ceilings to the wall panels . The rooms were so opulent and beautiful . What an awful shame that his family sold the Mansion after his passing in the 1920’sand for it to be demolished for an apartment complex !! This would have made for a beautiful house museum or to house an art gallery or something . Such a terrible waste of such beauty. Clarke’s Montana residence is lovely though not nearly as opulent has beutiful interiors and lovely furnishings and stained glass . I have to say that Clark’s Folly was a real stunner and it’s gone . Thanks Ken for the always detailed history lesson on the Mansion & Owner ❤😊
I have that book on Huguette Clark, "Empty Mansions". It seemed to me she had a very tragic life which just goes to show that money. Isn't the answer to every problem. Her doll collection was beyond description. I believe she never went out in public and spent most of her life with a nurse. But getting back to the house, It is absolutely stunning and I certainly hope part of it wound up in a museum or something.
I personally think people with millions of dollars would be better off finding poor people to give it to instead of spending it on mansions that will eventually be torn down 😢
Both are wonderful, though people do have a point that the Fifth Avenue mansion was kind of an eyesore. It just didn’t fit with the surrounding area. I am sure if there were fewer buildings around it, it would look better.
The story of Huguette Clark, his daughter, is chronicled in the book Empty Mansions. Her story is just as fascinating as her father.
I agree!!!
Yes, a fascinating story!
An INCREDIBLE book, should be required reading
History: 🌵 Clark is the Poster Boy for Corporatist, Social Climbing, Arrogance, Ego, and all that generally describes Political wins achieved through any means possible, be it the "Seat of a Senator", or Bills that give "Fat Profits to Corporations".
He never visited Las Vegas or Southern Nevada, for in the early 1900's it was merely "a waste of dessert, Pautie Indians, and roaming Cowboys", not worthy of his time, in his opinion.
Had he known what was to come, he would have planted the 1st cornerstone of a Bank and Hotel Casino, basking in the Glory of his Rich Namesake, "Clark County, Nevada".
As it was, he was insulted by the naming, felt it beneath him to even make a Railroad stop there.
The "Lower Mind aka Ego Mind" of man.
Discernment rather than Judgemental. Often, the facts just speak for themselves.
I lived in Clark County 17 wonderful years +/- ...
Beth Bartlett
Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
.
History: 🌵 Clark is the Poster Boy for Corporatist, Social Climbing, Arrogance, Ego, and all that generally describes Political wins achieved through any means possible, be it the "Seat of a Senator", or Bills that give "Fat Profits to Corporations".
He never visited Las Vegas or Southern Nevada, for in the early 1900's it was merely "a waste of dessert, Pautie Indians, and roaming Cowboys", not worthy of his time, in his opinion.
Had he known what was to come, he would have planted the 1st cornerstone of a Bank and Hotel Casino, basking in the Glory of his Rich Namesake, "Clark County, Nevada".
As it was, he was insulted by the naming, felt it beneath him to even make a Railroad stop there.
The "Lower Mind aka Ego Mind" of man.
Discernment rather than Judgemental. Often, the facts just speak for themselves.
I lived in Clark County 17 wonderful years +/- ...
Beth Bartlett
Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
Was anything salvaged from the Manhattan mansion . Those architectural details were fabulous .
From what I can collect, there was an art gallery inside that was acquired by a museum, but for the rest it was torn down.
@@Polemodrome ye gods what a waste
What became of the magnificent organ that was in the mansion ?
I’m from Santa Barbara, CA. William Clark built an amazing home on a cliff, next to the ocean. I would love to see a vid on the Clark Estate in Santa Barbra.
I thought his wife built that home.
That's probably the most magnificent mansion ever build, definitely surpassed any vanderbilts mansions. Is a total shame they demolished it
The windows and woodwork is beautiful
I Love This Program 💯😍😻
Can’t wait for the video about his daughter -Huguette Clark’s homes!!!! Bellosguardo!
Those stained glass windows❤
I love the excess of the mansion in Manhattan. I would just love to see it, although I agree, it was way over the top. I stayed in the Butte Copper King mansion in the 90s; it was being run as a bed and breakfast back then. I stayed with a big group of my family, and my two little nieces were certain it was filled with "ghosties". It was all red velvet, thick draperies, and every surface filled with statues, vases, bric-a-brac. The "more-is-more' Victorian look. Just a wonderful experience to stay there and wander around! Does anyone know if it is still a bed and breakfast? It is wonderful that it still exists!
The unbelievable wealth. I’ve read several articles about one of his daughters. She had a sad, lonely life.
One that she delibrately CHOSE. Please read the Book Empty Mansions
I recognized some of the paintings in the 77th street mansion as part of William A. Clark's bequest to the Corcoran Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, the Corcoran closed a few years ago, and its collections have been absorbed into the National Gallery of Art.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THESE GRAND HOMES AND BUILDINGS ***
I can't choose I love them both❤
Thank you Ken. Very good report.
THANK YOU ! I have always wanted to see interior photos of the NYC mansion. I think that the home was absolutely stunning even if it was “over the top”. All of your presentations are extremely impressive. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love your videos,great details and history ,but I don't like the endings,when these historical diamonds were demolished, what a great travel in time.thank you
I love the Montana mansion. Is it open to the public?
No. My husband and I stayed one night in Butte last fall. I wanted so much to see inside. The exterior looked a bit run down.
I much prefer the Montana mansion! Love the woodwork, stained glass etc. It is also much more cozy and liveable.
One of your best videos. The Clark mansion must have been a true wonder!!
I have always been interested in William Clark and his story. I never saw the inside of his NY mansion though I have seen photos of his mansion. I think it is pretty fantastic and magnificent. The design, carvings and intricacies of the building in my opinion were beautiful. It’s so so so sad that we have lost this home and so many others to “build and build and build.” 😢
I remember as a teenager getting to go on a tour of the Copper King mansion in Butte, Montana. It was pretty inside. I enjoyed getting to see what it was like back in the old days. I remember seeing their China collection which they used when guests would visit. It was pretty. They had fancy carved headboards on their beds and fancy lace curtains imported from Europe. It was interesting. 😊
It is criminal to tear down something so fantastic, and replace it with an ugly square box.
Nice ☺️🙂
Cool where he was born! I live 10 min away from Connellsville!
The Copper King Mansion reminded me of Mark Twain’s Hartford home. Prefer it, but appreciate the Victorian style of reinstalling features from older homes into a new creation.
The gothic chimney breast and china hall in the Manhattan house are my favorite parts of the building. Pity it could not be maintained as a house museum, albeit architecturally ungainly.
Love the Copper King mansion interior. It has a lot of detail, yet still seems warm and inviting.
The NYC mansion is spectacular both outside and inside. Fit for European royalty. Yet torn down so quickly 😥
Hard to even imagine having an unlimited building budget like that...just wow...$230 million dollars?! Omg!
That grand staircase makes me feel… uneasy.
lacking a railing, it would. These pics seem to date from the last days of the house - possibly the railing had already been removed, along with the bronze sculptures.
@@johnvonundzu2170
No i mean it looks ominous. Ya kno? It looks like a picture you see in a haunted mansion or murder house
I prefer the Montana mansion. The woodwork and stained glass etc. are gorgeous! It is also (IMO) much more cozy, which is important for me.
Ken, I wonder if any of the reassembled rooms where removed and saved or used elsewhere. I know I saw some at the MOMA in NYC. Most had been removed from big mansions.
They would have been salvaged, 18th century paneling is made easy to remove, and has always been very valuable
I prefer the Montana mansion - especially that stained glass!! ❤
Love it
IMO, these videos are way too short. They are always so very interesting. I'm still waiting for ya'll to cover all the Governor's mansions.
My state never calls them governor's mansion. It's a mansion, but we call it the "governor's residence" 😉
Just gorgeous. The staircase. The New York home: So wasteful and disrespectful of American heritage to tear these places down.
Please also cover the California estate of his daughter Huegette and her New York mansion. Shes even more fascinating than her father.
Clark sure knew how to make the most of foreclosure. It seems the grander they are, the harder they fall. The foyer of the Manhattan mansion felt very cold to me, with all of the interior stone work looking like it belonged in a bank. I imagine the artwork was auctioned off or donated to museums. Hopefully the complete French rooms were repurposed elsewhere. In 1925 the Depression hadn't even gotten started. I think I prefer the Copper King house, which feels more homey. Thanks for the "Two-fer". :)
I agree, the Manhattan entry feels a mausoleum!
I found it fascinating in that he was largely forgotten until his daughter Huguette Clark was brought into the news. It was ostentatious and a bit of visual overload to see all this mixes in styles. Thanks, Ken for another fascinating vlog!
Please tell us about Clark's mansion in Santa Barbara that is still there.
Was any of those architectural elements from the house re-salvaged? Please say yes...
They would have been salvaged, 18th century paneling is made easy to remove, and has always been very valuable.
Amazing how wealthy these men were..
I liked the Montana house interior better!
Thank you Ken 🙏😊
Wow. Love the Copper house. Such opulent furnishings in the mansion that took 14 years to build. Such a shame it was torn down for apartments. Thanks Ken
Please tell me that they at least salvaged the oak in the library…Sherman Forest!
What happened to the rooms that were brought over from Europe? Were they saved, or demolished along with the house?
I'm at a loss for words at the Manhattan mansion; beautiful, but overwhelming..
I like the Montana mansion.
I have stayed in the mansion in Butte about 12 years ago when it was a bed and breakfast. The most fabulous feature was the stained glass windows reflecting Queen Anne architecture. It had an elegance. Yet, it had a domestic character.
It was totally unlike the frankly poorly designed NYC mansion. The architectural design flaw that I thought was most egregious was the entry and the staircase. There was no light or focal point. What an architectural mess. Money doesn't buy taste.
It reminds me of an equally mishmash of Henry Ford's mansion. Begun by Frank Lloyd Wright but soon abandoned by him. Ford like the Copper King rich guy was completely devoid of architectural taste. The term Nouveau Riche has some basis!
What about the California mansion?
That house was built after Clark was dead, by his widow,
I love the NYC mansion. What a loss.
His house that is still standing, is it a museum? Or does a family live there?
Interesting fact. The enormous tower was designed to be a safe place to retreat to in the event of a pandemic. The tower could be seen from everywhere in Central Park.
The Clark fortune was as equal to Rockefeller's. Some historians have referred to him as the Jed Clampett of his era.
Thanks so much for showing these mansions! After seeing the Clark mansion in the 60’s in Butte, I developed my love for old houses.
Thanks for letting me so many mansions I would never see in person.
Love your channel 😊
Perhaps 'Clark's Folly' is a sad reminder of our shared Human Condition: all that work, grift, self-serving politics, double-dealing & foreclosing on others, he ended up with the rest of us: 6 feet under ... Think I'll take a break, smile at a stranger & smell the roses
Hi Ken...I could move right into the Montana Mansion! The NYC house is indeed a folly!
I ask this totally out of ignorance. So please forgive me. Ken, when these houses were torn down surely all the trappings must have been saved. Like the woodwork and the fireplaces and all that. What on earth happened to all that?
AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE THE MONTANA MANSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THE ORNAMENTATION FROM THE MANHATTAN MANSION???????????????????
This Beaux-Arts mansion has its pic next to the word "waste" in the dictionary. Took almost more years to build than it stand fully finished, also had authentic chateau parts reused into this... It gives me nausea. After Clark's death nobody wanted what was considered out of style and a costy upkeep mammoth, so in the end developers acquired it simply for the land it was erected on...
Only nineteen years standing before torn down. The colossal waste...
Excellent video, so many people mispronounce the words it's like why even do a video at all?
According to Clarks Biography when they tore the mansion down They put the Marble Staircase on a Barge and took it out into the East River where it was uneventfully pushed into the deep. Never to be seen again. Crazy Read.
They call that, progress. 😢
What a shame this splendid home was destroyed. It would have made an excellent embassy for some government, or a religious building, like the Kahn mansion, which still stands along 5th Avenue.
Love the folly. Hope some of the elements were saved. Such a waste.
One of my favorites! The limestone exterior it not gaudy at all lol Bring on the carved limestone please!
Was it electrified as part of its original construction? Thanks Ken!
Lol.
Clark’s Folly was really breathtaking to say the least.!! Unique architecture on the exterior but palatial and gorgeous details from the ceilings to the wall panels . The rooms were so opulent and beautiful . What an awful shame that his family sold the Mansion after his passing in the 1920’sand for it to be demolished for an apartment complex !! This would have made for a beautiful house museum or to house an art gallery or something . Such a terrible waste of such beauty. Clarke’s Montana residence is lovely though not nearly as opulent has beutiful interiors and lovely furnishings and stained glass . I have to say that Clark’s Folly was a real stunner and it’s gone . Thanks Ken for the always detailed history lesson on the Mansion & Owner ❤😊
I hope They didn't killed that crocodile.
I have that book on Huguette Clark, "Empty Mansions". It seemed to me she
had a very tragic life which just goes to show that money. Isn't the answer to every problem.
Her doll collection was beyond description. I believe she never went out in public and spent most of her life with a nurse. But getting back to the house, It is absolutely stunning and I certainly hope part of it wound up in a museum or something.
I thought FW Woolworth had the largest pipe organ. Maybe Clark one-upped him? There was a lot of that going on. Still is, I’m sure.
I personally think people with millions of dollars would be better off finding poor people to give it to instead of spending it on mansions that will eventually be torn down 😢
It’s driving me crazy. But it’s plaah cer. Not play cer.
placer mining................short a, not long a.
Both are wonderful, though people do have a point that the Fifth Avenue mansion was kind of an eyesore. It just didn’t fit with the surrounding area. I am sure if there were fewer buildings around it, it would look better.
What a waste of money. Torn down to build apt bldg. shameful.
To be fair, it is a Rosario Candela apartment building. Many of the custom apartments at 960 5th are architecturally significant in their own rights.