Tour Clayton, the Gilded Age home of the Henry Clay Frick family

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  • This tour introduces you to the Frick family and their home on Pittsburgh's Millionaire Row from 1882-1905. See the Dining Room, Parlor and Reception Room as well as private spaces such as the family bedrooms and bathrooms.

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  • @seattlebeard
    @seattlebeard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I stood alone in the bedroom of one of the biggest Union busters in history. The tour moved on to his wife's bedroom. I touched one of his hairbrushes with the tip of my finger. It was chilling. The house was lovely. I felt sad that all the beauty around me was acquired on the backs of working people.

    • @rosaliedill7088
      @rosaliedill7088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It provided needed jobs. That’s a good thing. And ANYONE that wants to be rich in this country - there’s nothing stopping you.

    • @JK-lp6uw
      @JK-lp6uw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Most everything is built on the backs of "working "people. That's an ignorant comment. Sounds as though you are envious, jealous. Not everyone is or strives so hard to be well to do. Not everyone can, nor ever will.

  • @sandypompilii6901
    @sandypompilii6901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazingly beautiful

  • @rgrndu
    @rgrndu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    House is frickin’ beautiful! The story about the steel mill reminded me of the 1945 movie The Valley of Decision.

  • @myrnajucar3498
    @myrnajucar3498 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this virtual tour. It is a good idea you have thought of for us who are in other countries and cannot afford a personal tour.

  • @cigarcatfromwayback...lets380
    @cigarcatfromwayback...lets380 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You realize how much money he had to have to STILL have something like this functional today!

    • @davidweihe6052
      @davidweihe6052 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No really. President Rutherford B. Hayes had a similar-sized house in Ohio, with as much furniture and furnishings preserved.

  • @MrBNARick
    @MrBNARick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love all the "hater" comments about extravagant wealth with total and complete disregard for the REALITY that had it not been for these Industrial Titans and financiers... America would Not BE WHAT IT IS TODAY. All you see is wealth and completely disregard the contribution that these men made. Also, when you talk about extreme wealth, remember there was no personal income tax in this Country when these men BECAME wealthy.

    • @beautysurroundings5055
      @beautysurroundings5055 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Total agree. The people that have this kind of complain just ignore the history and the foundation of our today world. Just fools !

    • @JK-lp6uw
      @JK-lp6uw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nancy. Hit that dead on! I agree.

    • @venus_envy
      @venus_envy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The people we should actually thank for all that building of America is the. workers he had shot, they did the actual work, this fat ass piece of shit just separated them from the suits of their labour, and then massacred them. Some hero you have, you must be fun at parties. Remember, the degenerate rich human sacks of trash at the heads of these companies don't get their hands dirty or do any actual work, it's the people below them that make 5000% less in wages that actual make anything possible. Without workers Frick would be a nobody, he's a useless cow pat and for what he did to those people, he's probably burning in hell as we speak.

    • @akacheddarmountain
      @akacheddarmountain 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣 and tell us how you feel about slavery

    • @maggiemae7539
      @maggiemae7539 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can have all the money and be spiritually bankrupt!

  • @williamkimmer6221
    @williamkimmer6221 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such style/ class

  • @donnadimeo
    @donnadimeo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I encourage you to read about Clay! Look up the Johnstown Flood, and the Homestead Strike. The guy was evil

    • @bogmon34
      @bogmon34 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He probably in charge of Hell now

    • @lespangen
      @lespangen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well he was assassinated reportedly causing anti U ion sentiment as a result

  • @tonyshumway7652
    @tonyshumway7652 11 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Yes what i read about Henry Frick he was so ruthless and quite the lack of morality which he was long vilified by the public and historians this was also the subject of a tv series called The Men who Built America also by his critics Frick was one of the hated men in America.

  • @maggiebugden9463
    @maggiebugden9463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting.thank you!!

  • @kellymurray8403
    @kellymurray8403 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    we went here for field trip it was awesome

    • @hattiem.7966
      @hattiem.7966 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was in Pittsburgh recently but didn't see this home.What part of the city is it in?

    • @andytaylor5476
      @andytaylor5476 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Point Breeze which is not far from Oakland.

    • @georgemersu1499
      @georgemersu1499 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, Point Breeze. Right on Penn Ave.

    • @georgemersu1499
      @georgemersu1499 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Point Breeze is right next to Wilkinsburg and Homewood and East liberty.

  • @craigparham7992
    @craigparham7992 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW Beautiful

  • @Mfl.8580
    @Mfl.8580 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mil gracias. Muy interesante relato..

  • @lewis7315
    @lewis7315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful house ... thing is those gilded age industrialists were ruthless people who were responsible for all kinds of horror against the ordinary people.... It is amazeing that more of them were not killed by some of their victims ... Calling a person an Anarchist misses the important point that revolutions are usually justifiable reactions to abuse and terror...

  • @ritabiro5105
    @ritabiro5105 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is beautiful

  • @ucebuflash
    @ucebuflash 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:50 No...send stimulating streams of water...RIGHT UP YER 'ARRIS

  • @cwb0051
    @cwb0051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Boy, They Sure Knew How To Live..

  • @Irishmahn87
    @Irishmahn87 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What’s the organ device in the parlor called? I cannot seem to recall

    • @mistrcoffe
      @mistrcoffe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Orchestrion. It was a self playing organ

  • @mommycatwhisperer9538
    @mommycatwhisperer9538 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel like I died and went to HEAVEN!!

    • @maggiemae7539
      @maggiemae7539 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not even close to Heaven!

  • @gloriahanes6490
    @gloriahanes6490 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    6:44 a French Jumeau doll exclusively owned by a special child of privilege.

  • @jesseleeward2359
    @jesseleeward2359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why did wealthy Americans imitate the British nobility when they could buy them out of house and home? A sense of inferiority? A sense of status? It still comes across as slightly cheesey. THere are country clubs that are like this today, very cheesey in an American context for some reason.

    • @rgrndu
      @rgrndu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You really like cheese.

    • @venus_envy
      @venus_envy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think they did feel inferior, hence the rush to traffic their daughters over to penniless English aristocrats as "dollar princesses", just so they could essentially buy a title for their family. It was really quite pathetic, as was a lot of the other things they did, like massacring workers.

    • @maggiemae7539
      @maggiemae7539 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were the same!

  • @huntersun9
    @huntersun9 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Johnstown Flood.

    • @victoriav8124
      @victoriav8124 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly!!...I wonder if they mention the Johnstown Flood when they give tours of this home!

  • @janethockey9070
    @janethockey9070 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Homestead Plant is torn down.

  • @THER4PROJECT
    @THER4PROJECT 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You must be a relative of Henry's. LOL

  • @THER4PROJECT
    @THER4PROJECT 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    LOL -- Great pay for that time. 1.00. Wow! Damn lets build a rocketship! -- also, I don't necessarily like "unions." But I most certainly don't like acts of the devil, like greed and "power".

    • @janethockey9070
      @janethockey9070 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THER4PROJECT Killing 20 folks at Homestead

    • @venus_envy
      @venus_envy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Back when there were unions, in the 40s/50s/60s, there were living wages and the buying power of a dollar, even adjusting for inflation, was a lot higher then than it was today. What my dad could buy with a dollar compared to what I can buy, was a lot more. Now wages are way behind cost of living and buying power is at an all-time low in most developed western countries. Yeah, unions sure are awful though, hope we don't bring them back, wouldn't want people to be fairly compensated and be able to afford basic needs like food and shelter on one job. Really, it's for the best that people en masse are deciding not to have kids because it's too expensive even with two professional salaries. There are too many people on this planet anyway, you know?