Dubbed Atalanta and facing the Hudson River, the mansion dates back to 1851, when it was constructed for Franklin Hughes Delano and his wife, Laura Astor Delano — FDR’s great-uncle and great-aunt.

This early-1900s mansion has 9,800 square feet of living space with nine bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Once the home of New York City philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor, 40 Mountain Top Road ...

As The New York Tribune pronounced, “Opera must have an elegant environment if it is to succeed.,” and so the Astor Place Opera House did. The interior was lavish—overly ornate with gigantic ...

A quaint carriage house near Manhattan's Gramercy Park was originally built in the late 1800s. Descendants of Winston Churchill and New York's famous Astor family once lived there. The three ...

Whether direct portrayals or loose inspirations, The Gilded Age has had its fair share of historical appearances throughout ...

NEW YORK – Brooke Astor was the immaculately dressed grande ... same interior decorator Jacqueline Kennedy hired for the White House -- but it's Astor who comes across, not the decorators ...

Situated on 32 acres in the heart of horse country, the 20,000-square-foot mansion was once owned by the prominent New York couple, James Coleman Drayton and Charlotte Augusta Astor, a member of t ...

Every theater-lover should know the story of the Astor Place Riots ... are a national tragedy unlike any other. May 10, 1849, New York City: the bitter theatrical rivalry between two of the ...

Once the home of New York City philanthropist and socialite Brooke Astor, 40 Mountain Top Road ... details befitting a Classic Revival mansion. Though it might offer its next owners the idyllic ...