The Gilded Age Mansion That Defied America’s Age of Greed

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  @shannonmillar6933 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I’m from Dunfermline where Andrew Carnegie was born - for anyone interested, it’s pronounced dun-ferm-lin (not line) and Americans always seem to pronounce Carnegie wrong, it’s car-nay-gey rather than car-na-gee - when he had made his fortune he came back to Dunfermline and bought pitencreiff park. It was a park that was only for the wealthy to be allowed to access, big gardens, greenhouses, outdoors pools, bandstands etc (and peacocks!). When he bought the park he changed it to a public park for anyone to use, it’s still a great park today, known by locals as the glen. Just passing on useless facts :)

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• CA

  @carolandersen8552 · 10 months ago

  I've decided that AI style means ' let's use as many synonyms as possible and repeat ourselves.'Truly AI has ARTIFICIAL semi intelligence.

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• TO

  @tonylifevietnam · 10 months ago

  It’s wild how these Gilded Age mansions were basically America’s version of “we have money, let’s build a castle.” This one feels like it was trying to make a point.

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• TT

  @tthompson6231 · 6 months ago

  He should have made sure his worker's were paid very well, built housing, paid for healthcare, opened a market that had everything.......... worker's work better when they don't have to worry about where their next meal is coming from.

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• DA

  @davidkimoochiiford3314 · 10 months ago

  So, Carnegie got his big break when he borrowed $500 from his mother, who mortgaged her house. How did she come to own a house worth $500 ?  A few years earlier, they had to borrow money for their ship passage to America.  Apparently, the path to fast, big money lay in real estate.

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• PE

  @PeggyBlackshire-ww2mz · 10 months ago

  I am from Pittsburgh Pa attended Carnegie Mellon University Upward bound Program 1971  the same time actor Blair Underwood. As a young woman I worked for Con-rail Corporation 1978 started in the office but I wanted to work in the yard . Eventually I learned to bid and work outside jobs. I decided in the winter months to bid on office jobs!  I visited  with the grand children the museum and the children’s department. I was impressed with the dedication and regularly volunteered as well. I don’t know how I feel about the account of history because I was a Railroad Union worker and believed in fair treatment and wages. This saddens me

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• CH

  @charlenejohnson4300 · 8 months ago (edited)

  There is as much if not more greed today.  And there is just as much vulgarity today!   I must say that many of these wealthy people provided jobs and culture for many who would never have any good in their lives without them.  But they were worldly in every way. Focused totally on being apart of and accepted by the upper etchelons

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• GO

  @GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath · 10 months ago

  “By 1900? More like 1880

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• JA

  @Jack-eo5fn · 10 months ago (edited)

  Carnegie built 2,800 free public libraries in the US and internationally. That’s a legacy for the ages.

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• SS

  @sstarklite2181 · 4 months ago (edited)

  How in this hell people could not see that they were poor because the WAGE is SLAVERY too is beyond comprehension. And it’s still slavery today!

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• JR

  @jrgnc1 · 7 months ago

  A simple and plain house!  He was only kidding himself!

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• CA

  @carlosGarcia-fq6ly · 10 months ago

  Thank you I enjoyed the video very very  much  👍

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