I appreciate your longer content, which allows the viewer to follow a thread connecting a number of houses and how they are part of a family’s history.
@monkeygraborangeАй бұрын
I always wonder what happens when people with multiple residences are looking for that green sweater they just _have_ to wear? Does that start a barrage of phone calls by the servants to different homes, or does one just buy that green sweater for every single house? Oy, such problems!
@johnmontagАй бұрын
At this time, labor was so cheap. You’d just buy 1 for every house if you were smart
@lawaynesplaceАй бұрын
James "Buck" also founded Duke Energy. Duke Energy's history began more than a century ago when James B. Duke led a group that built a system of lakes and dams along the Catawba River to generate electricity that would drive the economic growth of the Piedmont Carolinas. Through the years, many other companies have joined this tradition.
@sandybruce9092Ай бұрын
We pay Duke-Energy every month - no choice!
@jefflawrentz1624Ай бұрын
I had never seen a lot of the earlier Duke homes in Durham before. Thanks Ken!
@Snuggelbubs1Ай бұрын
Wonderful! The Hawaiian house was so beautiful! I worked for a couple of years in the Frist Duke House on Fifth Ave. (mid-'90s), selling what few antiques were left in the house to local dealers in Manhattan.
@paean109Ай бұрын
Amazing homes. A 40,000 sqft house is mind boggling. If I had a little bit of money, I would be happy just to have a personal chef.
@lisadolan689Ай бұрын
I’d rather have a cleaner 😫😫😫
@dmd5645Ай бұрын
@@lisadolan689😂😂🤣🤣 exactly!!.
@PatrickschlehuberАй бұрын
I’ve been watching you for years. This was one of my favorites.
@JohnSeefeldtАй бұрын
I love all your videos and look forward to them along with the included history lesson. You are very knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing this with us.
@rustybearden1800Ай бұрын
Doris Duke was larger than the life she inherited - she broke traditions, boundaries and stereo types in high style with no regrets. Her story is worthy of a movie - and it all began on a sharecropper tobacco farm in pre Civil War North Carolina.
@BlaineShireАй бұрын
UM her life was made into a movie 'TOO RICH: THE SECRET LIFE OF DORIS DUKE' staring the late great Lauren Bacall.
@rustybearden1800Ай бұрын
@@BlaineShire that was a mediocre "made for TV" miniseries
@BlaineShireАй бұрын
@@rustybearden1800 It is still a move..
@rustybearden1800Ай бұрын
@@BlaineShire not really
@BlaineShireАй бұрын
@@rustybearden1800 still a movie Mr. Movie Critic.
@GlennMandeville154Ай бұрын
Thanks Ken! An amazing story and an amazing video.
@lisadolan689Ай бұрын
Thank you Ken. I love this new format 15 mins is perfect 👌 🤩♥️
@vickiedouglas401Ай бұрын
I have an interest in Doris Duke after living in Newport. I visited Rough point several times. I think it is my favorite of the summer cottages. Her story is so interesting. Bittersweet.
@debbiem9218Ай бұрын
Nice story about the dukes and how they got rich at the expense of many of their customers getting sick from the tobacco. I'm so glad today that the governments are going after these companies and getting them to pay some of the medical bills of people who are getting sick from the tobacco. My dad, rest is soul, was I think one of them!
@corrineagnello458427 күн бұрын
It wasn’t known back then tobacco caused cancer.
@terrygibbs1147Ай бұрын
Shangri-La. Stunning
@randykreifels6171Ай бұрын
Great story, and i am glad she did important things with her money. Thanks ken
@robinpaula45Ай бұрын
Thanks for posting, love your videos.
@alanblanes2876Ай бұрын
This was terrific! I learned a lot from this episode.
@ledrodservilex3765Ай бұрын
Interesting family history. It is a shame that manny of the houses of that time are now gone. The dominican diplomatic she married was called Profirio Rubirosa.
@proudvirginianАй бұрын
From 1820 to 1993 in one video. And so many houses! Great video.
@David-HPC1904Ай бұрын
One of your best videos Ken, thank you. I always wonder what happened to the salvageable materials when a mansion is demolished.
@gandfgandf5826Ай бұрын
All magnificent but my favourite Duke mansion is one that wasn't built. Horace Trumbauer designed an enormous French chateau style mansion for Duke Farms. The floor plan and an image of what it would have looked like can be found on-line.
@CuriousEarthManАй бұрын
Thanks Ken, what an interesting video! The brothers' Manhattan mansions are some of my favorite. I think the mansion on 84th and 5th was built as a spec house, four houses or so in a row by the same builder, with buyers to materialize later. I had forgotten about Shangri-La! Thanks again! *edit: 82nd st and 5th ave.
@blahmooblah789Ай бұрын
I am craving the rich mellow flavor of This House
@sharksport01Ай бұрын
Daddy's got pneumonia, it's freezing outside, quick Doris...open the window!
@sapereaude5476Ай бұрын
Особняк Джейса Дьюка - строгая стилизация под французский классицизм, лаконичная и очень статная. Усадьба его дочки Дорис - настоящая восточная сказка
@Portia-oc6mrАй бұрын
Doris Duke and Duke Uni--didn't know there was a connection. ❤❤Brodie's Durham County Italianate mansion. The interior of Ben's mansion didn't disappoint either, including the second Manhattan mansion. Ditto for Buck's mansion. The lives and grand homes of the extraordinarily wealthy--so interesting.. Thank you, Ken.
@DannyKoKoАй бұрын
And I guess there's more about the Duke fortunes(?) Great video 👍👏
@almabaker2913Ай бұрын
Keep up the good work..😀
@dmd5645Ай бұрын
Learned something NEW!!. Did not know they were the originators of the tobacco companies!. Now i know Why they became so wealthy!. I like that original red brick townhouse mansion facing Central Park!. It just went up for sale a year or two ago. I viewed a virtual tour and was completely UNIMPRESSED!. The ONLY thing left is the structure--but the new designers had to modernize the whole frickin thing. No ornate chandeliers, or period French style furniture (which is what those rooms were designed to showcase!!). Well, at least its still here. And, we all can still aspire!!. Lol. 🍾🥂⚜️
@itschelseakayАй бұрын
“After a brief imprisonment…” wait, I want to hear more 😆
@RADIUMGLASSАй бұрын
When James Duke was on his deathbed in the Manhattan house his wife told the servants to open up all of the windows and shut off the boiler. Not long after he drifted away.
@cathyhopf6532Ай бұрын
in the 1980.s I rode horses at the NJ location of Doris Dukes Mansion It is so sad to hear that it was razed
@sandybruce9092Ай бұрын
I live in North Carolina and just about everything with the Duke name is from this family!
@adammiller2246Ай бұрын
I was wondering if the estate house that Mary Duke Biddle was going to b mentioned. This estate is located in Tarrytown NY. It became Tarrytown Confrence Center.
@BamBamBigelow..Ай бұрын
Dem Duke Boys
@carolyn8271Ай бұрын
What does Lindbergh estate look like in Hawaii?
@andyroo9381Ай бұрын
The North Carolina mansion has been torn down?
@janeflip1Ай бұрын
Two ads in one 13 minute video? Nope!
@tudofettАй бұрын
Duke decided to abandon farming and ventured into the tobacco buisness /facepalm
@VTL291Ай бұрын
First
@NunofurdambiznezАй бұрын
Congratulations!! Your cookie AND a shiny aluminum medal are on their way to your lovely home right this minute!
@gingerhiser7312Ай бұрын
So their fortune came from tobacco, a deadly product.
@sandybruce9092Ай бұрын
Many rich families got their money from tobacco. Makes me sick!