It's a shame that this beautiful estate couldn't have been saved it would have made a wonderful museum.

Can you imagine being this rich!!! Lucky

She lived to be 103 and enjoyed her house right up to the end. Good for her.

I can't believe that this incredible estate with all the history that it housed in its walls does not exist anymore. A disappeared national heritage. A crime.

What a travesty that this grand monument was raised. :-( Thank you for the video. :-)

The cast iron fence and stone columns that surrounded the estate are still there, although the fence is rusting and crumbling. You can still see it on Lakeshore Road near Fischer.

Thank you so much for this, and its companion videos.

Was this in Grosse Pointe, Michigan outside of Detroit? The Infante Don Alfonso de Borbon of Spain and Princesa Dona Margarita de Borbon of Spain were guests of the Dodge family.

I remember watching this on tv in 1971 and I have never forgotten it. I didn't know this tape still existed. Its so sad that even then, right after she died, they predicted that this house would be demolished. What a waste.

What is truly tragic is that it was for listed for sale at ('only') $1.25 million dollars...and no-one wanted it...This price would have been a fraction of the cost to rebuild something of similar scale and quality. The developer probably got it for even less... It amazes me that no-one that could afford it wanted it... But instead commissioned a 'modern' 2 story McMansion with indoor pool & basketball court

46,000 square feet, 18 ft ceilings, 75 rooms...wow. It was prohibitively expensive to maintain, as were many of these gilded age mansions

Why have we torn down these magnificent homes from the East to the West. Don't tell me that they couldn't have been turned into a museum, club, restaurant or beautiful townhouses sold separately preserving the outside structure! That said, the former tenement house girl Anna, forgot her poverty stricken youth. Her second marriage was to a homosexual who spent her money on this house and other homes, etc. . . like water! What did he care, it was going to her children. When this home was built, the U.S. was in a depression. Automotive workers were hit hard. Forgetting that her money came from the automotive industry, she only wanted European workers as she thought that American workers could not produce such as masterpiece. Only European masters could create her Rose Terrace! And, after she caught Hugh in the boat docked in front of the house did she realize the mistakes she made. The Dodge fortune went from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations.

@dugyhoiser I remember watching it too. I was about 13 at the time. As I recall, they needed to raise money to pay the federal estate tax.

Trumbauer sure had the rich lining up.

YEE GHADS.....>THERE"S NO ESCAPE FROM PIPE ORGANS IN THE ENTIRE BLOODY CONSTRUCT!

we went to Halloween partys there. Very very Haunted. by Horace.

A great architectural loss to the city of Detroit and to America as a whole. To build such a splendid mansion only to have it taken down 40 yrs later! CRIMINAL! I *believe* that my great grandparents bought some furniture from this house at auction - A side cabinet and guest bedroom furniture.

Odd that this Mansion is referred to as Rose Terrace and not its real name "Rose Terrace II". An earlier Tudor Mansion sat on this site prior to this chateau .. Mrs. Dodge had it bulldozed to the ground and built "Rose Terrace II" ...

"1931... There was the poor, and the very rich".... Sound familiar???

The the folks who are poo-ing the provenance of the art and antiques in this house, most of it came from Lord Duveen (an Englishman) who has been accused of many things, such as faking art, overstating value and the like, but has never been accused of dealing in compromised antiques. Duveen was one of the first to deal antiques primarily to Americans after he stated that Europens have the art, Americans have the money (paraphrased).

@amisven And all the art was probably stolen during the 2 world wars, It must return to their original countries were it was designed I believe.

"...she was as fantastic as the house she built. simple, yet a queen ...she could be affectionate then stern. ...lash out. ...commanded great loyalty from those around her." Better for her that her soul should have been loving, meek and humble than any mansion built for her. Her treasures were here only. Not in the next world. That's the unfortunate part. I pity her.

Burned down when i was a kid. same as the Ford Mansion

there is a face in the trees at 1:05. it looks to be of a women.check it out.

Built to entertain 100 people who never went there.

The fact that this magnificent home was torn down was a travesty. My grandfather did the plasterwork. Why? One good reason why? This disposal able society that we live in. JLHudson? Why, what did that building do to you PG Mills, rot in hell with your Christmas bears. The man who destroyed retail in Michigan. Henry Ford 2, you built and edifice to yourself on the water, maybe you should have spent it on the buildings that already existed, train anyone? Detroit used to be wonderful. I was there.

There’s 24 large homes on this property today.

What a wasted life. All these people thought about was aquisition, wealth, and appearances. They gave no thought for the poor, only seeking to enrich themselves, living like they thought they were kings and queens. They didn't store up riches in heaven. Their earthly riches were their God.

Even the description is plagiarized.

she spent way to much on thos house..