The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America

The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
by Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell

The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America
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Author: Lee Baldwin Dalzell, Robert F. Dalzell
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-07-24
ISBN: 0805075445
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

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Book Review: ROCKEFELLER'S KYKUIT
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a very well written book about the iconic Rockefellers and their family estate. It's interesting how the house seems to act as a metaphor for each of the family member's, their interests, their desires. Kykuit is an amazing set peice and the mixture of Jr.'s Bosworth and Ogden Codman classical estate, Sr's wanting the house to be tasteful and not too grand, and Nelson's avande garde, modern tastes. The estate and it's location are breathtaking and the Codman interiors are exquisite. This is a very well researched and fascinating study of the Rockefellers and their Kykuit. I do recommend getting the Rockefeller Family Home: Kykuit, it's very good.

Summary of The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America

What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family
One hundred years ago America’s richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt’s 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind—at least until his son John Jr. and his charming wife, Abby, injected a spirit of noblesse oblige into the equation. Built to honor the senior Rockefeller, the house would also become the place above all others that anchored the family’s memories. There could never be a better picture of the Rockefellers and their ambitions for the enormous fortune Senior had settled upon them.

The authors take us inside the house and the family to observe a century of building and rebuilding—the ebb and flow of events and family feelings, the architecture and furnishings, the art and the gardens. A complex saga, The House the Rockefellers Built is alive with surprising twists and turns that reveal the tastes of a large family often sharply at odds with one another about the fortune the house symbolized.

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