Your donation to the Driehaus Museum supports the exploration of the many facets of the Gilded Age through educational and cultural experiences. The building is a fantastic example of the Spanish Renaissance Revival style.
You may even feel as if you’ve been whisked back to America’s Gilded Age, yourself.Besides its own collections, the museum hosts traveling art exhibitions and typically presents numerous special events throughout the year.
In United States history, the Gilded Age was an era that occurred during the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The Lightner Museum, in St. Augustine FL, is home to a vast and diverse Gilded Age collection, displayed in a stunning and historic, 1888 hotel turned museum, in America’s oldest city.The Alcazar Hotel, located in historic downtown St. Augustine, is an iconic architectural masterpiece all on its own. The article, which reads like an obituary for Gilded Age mansions, suggests that the few remaining houses will soon fall to the hands of developers. Arguable the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, DC, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. This virtual tour of our most recent exhibition is a feast for eyes and ears - a journey through the sublime art glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany accompanied by the pastoral music of Aaron Copland.This exhibition, featuring the arts and literary journal published in Berlin from 1885-1900, documents a new era of printmaking for the turn of the century.Explore the many facets of the Gilded Age through groundbreaking exhibitions, events and cutting-edge programs.Our tours include discussion of the history and architecture of the building, the Museum’s collections, and highlights of the special exhibition.
(closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day; last admission is at 4pm)St. Augustine and the Lightner Museum are less than an hour from Instead, it was purchased in 1947 by Otto Lightner, editor and publisher of of the now long out of print Hobbies Magazine. The building also home to the St. Augustine City government offices.All four floors of the Lightner Museum are bursting with strange and beautiful historic artworks. Lightner wanted a place to display his collection of mostly American Gilded Age arts and the Alcazar seemed a perfect fit.Once he had successfully converted the stately building into a museum, he bequeathed it to the city, who opened it to the public in 1948. Before we leave here, I don’t want to forget another masterpiece, the Colonial Revival house on the southwest corner of Madison at 78th, No. Visitors can tour the mansion and learn about the changes that occurred in American life, industry, and society during the late 19th-century period known as the Gilded Age The “Gilded Age,” a term coined by American author and satirist Mark Twain, was in many ways an era of stark extremes in our nation’s history. The Museum is located just steps from the Magnificent Mile within the meticulously restored Nickerson Mansion, renowned as Gilded Age Chicago’s “Marble Palace.” The Alcazar Hotel, located in historic downtown St. Augustine, is an … Ninety percent of the nation’s families earned less than $1,200 per year by the height of the period in 1890, while an elite 10% earned above it . The Lightner Museum, in St. Augustine FL, is home to a vast and diverse Gilded Age collection, displayed in a stunning and historic, 1888 hotel turned museum, in America’s oldest city. Please contact the Museum at (904)-829-9887 to make sure we will be open when you plan to visit. 28. Beginning May 31st, 2020 the Museum will be closed on Sundays until further notice. Like Gilded Age proto-McMansions. The now dry space was once billed as the World’s Largest Indoor Swimming Pool.The museum is open 9am to 5pm, seven days a week, 363 days a year. The Museum is located just steps from the Magnificent Mile within the meticulously restored Nickerson Mansion, renowned as Gilded Age Chicago’s “Marble Palace.” The Richard H. Driehaus Museum explores the art, architecture, and design of the late 19th-century with a focus on the Gilded Age. Exquisite Victorian art glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass, Asian art, costumes, furnishings, seemingly endless Gilded Age artifacts. It doesn’t need to be filled with an incredible collection of gorgeous antiques to be of interest – yet it is.The Alcazar hasn’t accepted a guest since it closed during the Depression.