"If you love HBO’s Gilded Age drama series, this is your chance to live that life. The mansion was built in 1843, pre-Civil War, but it’s the post-Civil War swagger of High Victorian Second Empire additions that make the house unrepentantly ostentatious, and wonderfully so. You can read Dickens on a velvet settee in the 5 th floor library with windows open to harbor breezes. It’s time travel at its most decadent." - Allston McCrady