America's Castles: The Grand Tour
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: A and E Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 280 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- AMERICA'S CASTLES takes a grand tour of the nation's most extraordinary homes. Lavish, sprawling, and sometimes whimsical, these one-of-a-kind landmarks astonish with their architectural inventiveness and exuberant decorative splendor. Built between the turn of the 20th century right up to present, these remarkable estates and mansions stand as the crown jewels of America's most rich a
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DVD Review: Love this series!
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Grand Tour" is a 2-disk compilation of six episodes from the A&E series "America's Castles," which was produced in the mid-1990's Using historical footage, the show highlights properties built during the Gilded Age when rapid economic growth created a new kind of wealth - the industrialist. The homes are oppulent and ostentatious, a true showplace to display their fortunes before taxes made them unmanageable to operate. Each episode has a certain theme such as "Florida's Grand Estates" highlighting the beach front homes of several northern industrialists to south Florida or the "Gold Coast Estates" which highlights luxurious Hamption homes on New York's Long Island sound, concentrating on two to three homes per episode. Providing history of the family that built the original home, and in most cases, the persons who brought the property back to it's original glory after years of neglect. The original owners are a who's who of the Gilded Age including super-rich industrialists and financiers such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Flagler, J.P. Morgan, and of course the Vanderbilt and Astor families.
One of the standout segments is included in the "Grand Plantation" episode - Longwood, an octagonal plantation featuring a Byzantine onion dome that is breathtaking on the outside and completely unfinished (except for the basement where the family lived during construction) on the inside. Construction started in 1859 and halted with the outbreak of the Civil War, the family's loss of fortune, and the loss of the patriarch.
I love the America's Castles series - and wish that A&E would continue to produce quality programming like this instead of the many tacky reality series that now make up their programming like Family Jewels, Billy the Exterminator, and Storage Wars.
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