The Berwind Mansion was built as the New York residence of the industrialist and coal magnate Edward J. Berwind in 1896 in the Beaux Art style by the architect Nathan Clark Mellen. The building has been described by the architectural historian, John Tauranac, in The New York Times as "unabashedly Louis XV and about as close to Versailles as residential New York has to offer." The rooms in this parlour floor apartment within the mansion were deemed museum pieces at the...
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