Norwich in the Gilded Age:: The Rose City's Millionaires' Triangle (Landmarks)

Stroll down Norwich's most fashionable mile of millionaires' mansions and mingle with the extraordinary people who lived and played behind their elegant facades during the glamorous Gilded Age. Wealthy manufacturers and merchants constructed magnificent mansions, many of which survive today, along this trendiest triangle in the glitzy Rose of New England. Tricia Staley has uncovered forgotten scandals like the Blackstone baby kidnapping and the bank cashiers who embezzled thousands of dollars from wealthy residents, as well as the drama of fortunes made and lost. Meet Tiffany's founding partner John Young, rubber shoe manufacturing king William A. Buckingham, the Slaters, Greenes, Hubbards and more salacious, stylish titans of industry and extravagance. Norwich: the rose of New England The Slaters The Blackstones The Buckinghams, the Aikens and the Carews Senator Lafayette S. Foster The Greenes and Benjamin W. Tompkins The Ballous, the Youngs and the Almys General William Williams and Mrs. Harriet Williams The Hubbards The Elys The Lee family Alfred P. Sturtevant General Daniel Tyler David A. Wells Charles L. Richards Edwin C. and Mrs. "Diamond" Johnson The Osgoods J. Newton Perkins The Nortons Charles A. Converse Colonel George L. Perkins Moses Pierce Amos W. Prentice The Smiths and the Mowrys The Charles Johnson family The Erastus Williams family The Carrolls Jeremiah Halsey Christopher Crandall (C.C.) Brand Henry Bill Edward Chappell Bela Lyon Pratt Public buildings of the Millionaires' Triangle.