On Saturday I went cross country skiing at Bretton Woods which is partly on the property of the Mt. Washington Hotel. The Hotel is off Route 302 in the New Hampshire White Mountains. It was built by Joseph Stickney, a railroad tycoon who spared no expense in building a hotel "palace" in the middle of the mountains. It was started in 1900 and finished in 1903. A year later, Stickney died at the age of 64. Follow the link to a blog and learn more about the hotel and see pictures of it's gilded opulence, even today, thanks to a restoration The Distracted Wanderer on the Mt.Washington Hotel. Many say we are living in a second gilded age. What do you think? Can you give examples of a project of this magnitude today?
This is impressive, if you are trying to compare it to today's standards yes I think we are living in a second gilded age. Just look at Tom Brady's house it's, 14,000 square feet. It's crazy we're living in an age where people spend 50 million on a 25 bedroom house with 18 bathrooms, when plenty of people don't have a home to live in.
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