Are there any 5th Avenue mansions left?

991 Fifth Avenue is one of few Gilded Age mansions still intact today. Of the remaining residences is 991 Fifth Avenue, an extraordinary Upper East townhouse that's been meticulously preserved since it was built in 1901, at the tail end of the Gilded Age.



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The five-level mansion was built between the years of 1899-1901 and stands as one of NYC's last true mansions. The Benjamin N. Duke House, NYC's “last true mansion,” was recently listed at a whopping $80 million, and a look inside makes us all wish we were nepo babies.

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Alice Vanderbilt sold 1 West 57th street—the grand mansion lauded as the largest house in Manhattan—for $6.1M (about $83.2M in today's dollars) in 1925, citing how expensive the taxes were on the property. The mansion was demolished to eventually make way for the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman.

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1. Biltmore Estate (Asheville, North Carolina): 175,000 square feet. The Biltmore Estate isn't just the largest privately owned house in the United States — it blows the competition out of the water.

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Though the family stopped living in the mansion in the 1950s, it is still owned and run as a tourist attraction by the fourth generation of Vanderbilt descendants.

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