What Happened to Robert Brewster's Mansion in Manhattan?
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- Imagine being extremely wealthy, but keeping it a secret. Today we are exploring the mansion of a man who could afford the entire world, but decided instead to spend his money on people in need.
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"Large & comfortable enough for the family without being ostentatious." And so it was. Simple elegance was born.
Hey, whats up man! I moved to CoMo a few months back. You still here?
@@StLouis-yu9iz I don't remember you, lol, but I do live in Columbia MO, and have on & off since 1986, the year I turned 21. I am now the ripe old age of 56.
Simple elegant
This was my favorite video about the rich and what they chose to do with their wealth. "To whom much is given, much is expected."
Honestly, I love the simple elegance of this home.
Me too.
Made this Sunday a Funday!!😌
What a great story!!! Loved that this couple lived a modest life but gave quit a bit to the less fortunate. Loved it!!!
Agreed ☺️😍
The man was more amazing then the house usually it was the other way around.
Loving the history behind these homes.
Watching these videos is always like opening a rabbit hole. I pause and read the whole newspaper article. I try to see what's become of the offspring of the people in the video. I already looked to see where Mt Kisco is.
What a great story! Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this! Robert is my distant cousin. I've seen pictures of his home, but really had no idea all the good he accomplished. Thank you for sharing this! 👍❤
I'm glad you were able to learn more about your relative, and find out what a good and generous man he was.
Hello Ken - What a great presentation!
Yeah Ken, this is more along my style, but I'm sure still way out of my price range. Another old house idea. The old homes along the northern edge of Forest Park in St. Louis. I always wondereed who lived there when and what they did. Good video as usual.
Nice to see humble people who build fantastic homes such as this. Thank you for the tour. Hope everyone is having a good Sunday 👍 🙏 😊 💝💝
I have never heard of him but I absolutely love what you do showing these old mansions please keep up the wonderful work
Great walk through history and splendid architecture. I must reincarnate in such families, and partake of their magnificent ( humble) mansions😊
Now those are the kind of rich people I appreciate. Humblethrifty considerate of the poor and engaging in helping the poor. 👍
This simplified humble home looks luxurious to me.
Of all the homes you have featured, this is the one I like best. Understated and functional
Another great story and how wonderful mankind can be, thank you Ken.
I know the channel is all about 'the house', but I wish you would have said just a little bit more about the YMCA.
Other than that, extremely well done sir.
They sure didn't skimp on their AVALON country estate. Priceless artworks and imported Italian wood and marble and utterly super expensive rugs, etc. You forgot to mention after the AVALON fire that Brewster had the estate rebuilt.
Unca Buzz, they kept the ostentatious mansion out of the view of the city dwellers.
@@keepitsimple4629 interesting.
@@crankyoldperson6871 I guess by their standards, they were more beneficent than their peers, who gave nothing to the poor.
The unwritten rule : The building standards, and architecture, and design seem to seldom reach what came before. The ways these old mansions could have been integrated into high rise living would have provided the best of both worlds.
Now they quietely admitt it. It was a huge mistake not to save all these historic mansions sppecially in the Manhattan's millionaires row .Too late now!.
I mean they could of just put some extra floors on it to make it an apartment building, would've looked nicer than what replaced it
Hi I'm fairly new here. I would like to say I have enjoyed all the videos I've watched so far. I really enjoyed how you changed the photos from black and white to color and noted it on the screen. Well done.
I love your videos!!!
"Imagine being extremely wealthy..." Trust me, I do...all the time. 😂
I just found your channel a few weeks ago, and became a subscriber. I love the very interesting and specific focus of your channel, and I find all your videos fascinating.
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that Opera house picture... its gorgeous!
and remember kids, that 18 story high rise, cost LESS to build than his 4 story mansion... its not just about money inflation, the oak beams and timbers simply dont exist today... the stonework is also VASTLY more expensive due to reduced demand... its just not used anymore
Thanks for sharing this fascinating story about Robert Brewster & his beautiful mansion!!! I love these stories from a bygone era. It's a bit sad to me that another glorious mansion was lost to the wrecking ball!!! 👍
A great man. Liked the simplicity of the house.
I like Mr. Brewster’s humbleness and servant’s attitude and generosity.
Such a great story, until now I did not know the origin story of the YMCA, talk about a good match, a very nice couple indeed, and having the foresight to make your charities more comfortable in a nice but not in your face excesses home
I much prefer this house, modest and designed to be people and pet friendly. Nothing wrong with being humble and loving towards God and your fellow man. I do not like it when people show off their wealth and power. I much prefer that people help others quietly and with unconditional love ❤️.
What a story, what a nice family and what an incredible address!
Love love LOVE Ken! You voice is hypnotic. Your grammatical perfection calms my brain. I am now fascinated by homes I have never seen and will never see 😆☺️
Thank you for the tour Ken. Very interesting.
What a great story! Thanks for sharing. 😊
I now understand why YMCA by the Village People was scandalous when it came out.
Thanks, Ken! Nice job! Keep safe and stay well.
Thanks Ken!
Very cool video Ken.
Thank you for the great architectural history !
Well, they got it right. Always go for some revival of XV century Rome and Florence architecture to achieve dignified monumental character instead of ostentatious excess.
All that art painstaking collected and sold at a loss for 4MM. Shows how badly wealth travels through generations and why most are self made. Great production!
Thank you so much for the wonderful Videos that you make the marvelous facts your supply us with of these days gone bye
Watched the Gilead age on HBO. Been watching your channel ever sense. After a month you have a new subscriber
I wish you would publish a coffee table book on the mansions of New York
Awww....they were good people...
Cool dude and dudette!
We need a Federal historical preservation that prevents new owners from demolishing these places.
As in if you want to own that patch of real estate you're going to maintain what's there or there should be a mandatory landswap to an empty lot..
“Dell uh no” as in Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Not “De lawn oh.”
How is it you can pronounce “cartouche” correctly but mispronounce the name of an old American family? Good golly.
I agree, I'm just happy this isn't one of those robovoice channels that can be quite taxing to listen to.
I hate when mansions like this are demolished to build nasty and cold high buildings.
Yo Ken can you search and make a video on Riverstone in Foxburgh PA. Good history on the parcel
Such a Shame people don't care enough about there families contributions to the world especially to the needy to keep there memories alive. Why the house wasn't put on the national registry and kept up for future generations to tour and learn about such an unselfish couple baffles the mind. So Sad!
The National Registry wasn't started until the 1960's. It seems this family wasted no time in selling the house, and I'm sure they figured in NYC it would be torn down by a developer.
It’s sad that the children always end up selling 😢 .
I think it's probably pronounced DEL-uh-no, rather than del-AH-no. You know, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Yes indeed. The architect, William Adams Delano, was a distant cousin of President Roosevelt.
whenever i donate, it’s always anonymous, donating in the lottery is always kept in secret, one day when i pass, i think i will have betted $30.00 every year, thats a lot of money
The architect's name is pronounced Dell-A-no, as in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not De-lah-no. And is something is "more plain" then it is plainer.
Brewsters millions!
I still cringe at the word "demolished". This home looks so classy and comfortable. Maybe we see here the difference between "old money" and "new money". The exuberance of the more ornate and grand homes we have seen grabs the attention (as we know was the intent), but this house was no less beautiful. It seems like one that could have been more easily saved and re-purposed. An extra thumbs up to Mr. Brewster for his work on behalf of the Metropolitan Opera. My NY grandmother listened to performances on the radio in the 1930s after she moved to Los Angeles, and sometimes I still do.
The opposite of Donald Trumps style! Gold engraved carved and enameled paint on every square inch turns something beautiful into ghetto fabulous and tacky! lovely presentation as always cheers from Park City Utah!
Another sad story about Apts taking over..
A 5-story 20,000 sf MODEST home.
“Myansion”
“Fyamily”
From where is our narrator’s accent?
who's idea is to it to demolish these american palaces???! 😳😡
People who wanted more homes out of the mansions? American palaces! As if Americans should have palaces.
One explanation: the US economic system does not favor the preservation of great wealth in one family. One reason is that we have never incorporated the law of primogenitor into our system of inheritance. In other words, our laws have been designed to prevent automatic transfer of wealth to the first born son .For this reason The great wealth of the 19th century was divided among multiple 20th century descendents. In the alternative (European) system, the firstborn son inherited all land, houses, and businesses, and wealth remained with individual families, in some cases, for hundreds of years.
If, as in the United States of the 20th and 21st centuries, great fortunes have been divided and dispersed through generations of siblings, then you have an explanation for the loss of the great houses and expansive land holdings of our 19th century multi-millionaires. No one heir can inherit the house as his or her own property.(with the exceptions being the cases in which a parent has deliberately cut all but one child out of a will). With money disbursed among siblings, no one heir has enough money to buy the house from his/her brothers and sisters. The only possibility in these cases is for the house to be sold to some person with a plan for demolishing it, so that money from the sale can be divided evenly among heirs.
Our system for disbursement of inheritances has its good points. The former European system kept great wealth within individual family lines, sometimes for centuries, and the consequence was economic stagnation. Great, tremendously big houses were maintained through those centuries, but people outside these family lines were kept from opportunities for building wealth. In the United States, we lose beautiful properties to wrecking crews, but in general we keep wealth flowing through the system. That's the general idea, at any rate.
And another beautiful building was demolished to make way for an ugly replacement!
When I win the lottery and build my dream house, you are cordially invited for a tour.
Please, if you care about history don't fake it by colorizing. That is awful The rooms look better in black and white.
Try to enhance the locution because it gets too “ flat “ and slighted boring .
I love your contents but your locution needs some “ life “ .