Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Chicago once had castles. Before steel-and-glass towers took over the skyline, Prairie Avenue and the Gold Coast were lined with Gilded Age mansions, most now gone.

Featured lost mansions & sites in this video:

Marshall Field Mansion
George Pullman Mansion
John G. Shedd Mansion
Perry H. Smith Mansion
Cyrus McCormick Sr. Mansion
Cyrus McCormick Jr. House
Potter Palmer Mansion
William Borden Mansion
Edith Rockefeller McCormick’s Chicago home
Villa Turicum (Lake Forest)

Location: Chicago, IL

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