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Posted by mm on February 15, 2007, 4:34 am
>> alt.home.repair:
>> In the early 20th century, can faux marble be more expensive than real
>> marble?
>>
>> About 25 years ago I toured the Vanderbilt mansion, on the Hudson
>> River, somehwere near Tarrytown.
>>
>> The tour guide pointed to the banister, and maybe the bottom of the
>> beside the stairs, and maybe some other part of the staircase, and
>> said they were faux marble, painted wood, and that at the time, this
>> was more expensive than real marble.
>>
>> I found that hard to believe at the time and still do.
>>
>> What I thought was that even Cornelius Vanderbilt didn't like to spend
>> more money than necessary, and someone, maybe Mrs. Vanderbilt started
>> this story that it was more expensive.
>aybe she told her friends or
>> her kids. figure something like that might account for all this.
>
>Dunno about the faux marble- I've only walked the grounds, I think,
>can't recall if I ever went inside. But it's in Hyde Park, near
>Roosevelt place. Tarrytown has Phillipse Manor, where they're rather
>more frank than they used to be about the fact that he(Philipse) owned
>and traded slaves.
I havent been there. Was it open to the public 24 years ago?
By "near Tarrytown", I"m afraid I mean any place north of NYC on the
east side of the Hudson, and south of Albany. I think all this is
actually south of the Tappan Zee Bridge, and I'm 99% sure it was the
Vanderbilt mansion. If not that, then Franklin Roosevelt's place, but
I don't think so.
I think I"ve been to Washington Irving's house also, but I can't
remember what it is called. Isn't that in Tarrytown, or Sleepy
Hollow?
> Sort of the Rockefeller of his era. Their place is
>nearby also- Kykuit.
Don't remember Rockefeller's house being open to the public 24 years
ago.
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