During the Gilded Age, very wealthy families built summer estates in the most desirable areas close to the seasides of Long Island, Bar Harbor Maine and Newport RI or among the cooling mountains and hills of Lenox Massachusetts, the Adirondacks, the Hudson River Valley and in New Jersey's Somerset Hills.

Volume 2 of a two book series featuring the estates of the Somerset Hills is offered here. These fascinating books document the architecture and landscape architecture of these fabulous homes and, perhaps more interestingly, include the stories behind the families and architects who built them. These stories describe how the wealth of these families was accumulated along with their talents, loves, losses and in some cases the scandals.

The writing is well done and photographs are wonderful.

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If the same buyer purchases both volumes, shipping will be combined for the price of Volume1.