Item Number: 136043 Title: Maymont : An American Estate Author: Wheary, Dale Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781857599732 Description: New York: Scala, 2015. 26cm., hardcover, 64pp., 80 color illus. Summary: During the Gilded Age of the late 1880s to the 1910s - the era of Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt - American millionaires demonstrated their prosperity through their elaborate homes. Maymont was the 100-acre country estate of Richmond-born financier James Henry Dooley and his wife Sallie May Dooley. Their opulent residence was completed in 1893. The Dooleys spent three decades filling its sumptuous interiors with treasures from around the world and establishing Maymont's magnificent gardens, landscape and architectural complex. The Dooleys bequeathed Maymont - completely intact - to the City of Richmond to be used as a public park and museum. Today it is an unusually complete example of a Gilded Age estate. This lavishly illustrated and elegantly designed volume welcomes the reader into this spectacular estate, appealing to visitors as well as all those fascinated in the history and grandeur of the Gilded Age in America. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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