Home Sweet Mansion: A Peek into the Domestic Lives of Gilded Age New Yorkers
Online via ZoomIt was good to be a prosperous New Yorker in the late 19th century: beautiful clothing, expensive furnishings, well-kept parlors, and endless entertaining. But someone had to do the hard work of actually cooking and cleaning, and it certainly wasn’t the prosperous New Yorker. At the Schwab Mansion, for instance, a 75-room home on Riverside […]