The Swan Bed of Maymont

The Swan Bed is the most iconic piece of furniture in the Dollanganger Saga, its vivid description mesmeries readers and its often been wondered if such a bed existed ……. Well, although not quite as elaborate, it does not contain a ruby red eye nor a miniature version of itself, there is such a bed…

The History of Farthingale Manor

“Farthingale Manor.” Built in 1886 for English toy mogul Langdon Tatterton of the Tatterton Toy empire, the home was the centerpiece of the Massachusetts’s Mansion district and the toast of New England society. The home soon fell into great disrepair in the 1970s as Tatterton Toys sales plummeted and the three-hundred-year-old family corperaton went bankrupt…

The History of Foxworth Hall

By Julianne Hannes Back in the days between 1890 and the 1950s, when one was invited as a guest at a Gilded Age Mansion of one America’s “Elite 400”, often a postcard of the house and stationary with the estates name would be provided. Having your family estate as postcard was a status symbol of…