Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, once a society fixture, is the real life inspiration behind one of the central characters in ...

Here’s the book for you “The Gilded Age Cookbook” peeks into the extravagant parties of the 19th-century American elite, from gelatin-encased food to a monkey as the guest of honor.

The HBO series The Gilded Age depicts a world of money, ambition, shifting power, and dark secrets. And while it is (for the most part) fictionalized, it also might not be too far from the truth ...

Glenview, a mansion built by millionaire Wall Street banker John Bond Trevor in 1877, appears as Mrs. Astor's house in HBO's ...

3 Books About House Hunting In The Gilded Age The money and mansions of the turn of the century provide rich fodder for some fabulous reads.

The phrase "America's Gilded Age" typically brings to mind the financial exploits and consequent dazzling wealth of the "robber barons": Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, and others. The ...