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LandmarksNovember 21, 2023
Lyndhurst Mansion may be familiar to viewers of the HBO series The Gilded Age since a number of this historic house's rooms served as filming locations for the show. And its former owner was one of the most notorious figures of the Gilded Age -- Jay Gould. He was known as…
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