Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House
by Richard Guy Wilson
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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HARBOR HILL (2008-04-20)
BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS AND WELL WRITTEN STORY OF AN ESTATE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS….THE AUTHOR MADE IT EXIST AGAIN, IF ONLY IN THE MIND OF THE READER.harbor hill book (2008-04-18)
Gave as gift and person who received it absolutely loves it. She could not put the book down and we have ordered another copy to give as gift to somene else! Very well written and immensely interesting.HARBOR HILL (2008-04-09)
Harbor Hill was one of the most spectacular mansions ever built in America. Designed by the iconic Stanford White and built to embody the MacKays desire to accend to the pinacle of NYC society. This book charts the rise of the MacKays and their ultimate demise, along with the similar fate of this great house. The mistress of the house was a real peice of work, but this beautiful showplace was really her creation, she knew what she wanted and Stanford White gave it to her, with Mr. MacKay’s money of course. The book is well researched and it’s an interesting read and the images are first rate. Honestly, it’s tragic that this house no longer survives, you just wonder what kind of philstine could tear something like this down, unfortunitely this being America and not Europe, none of us should be surprised it was so uncerimoniously destroyed. Harbor Hills fate closely resembles the great Philadelphia mansion, Whitehall, and the MacKays are more than a bit similiar to the Stotesbury’s, both thought they built their great estates to last for centuries and instead they barely outlived them..when you see the kind of grand mansions built today in places like Bel Air and Palm Beach, you can’t help but notice how inferior they are in comparison to the great Gilded Age mansions like Harbor Hill, it’s a shame we dont have more respect for beautiful architecture of the past, we inherited so much from the Europeans, but that unfortunitely was not one of them…too bad for Harbor Hill, now just a ghost, haunting old sepia stained images.
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