VANDERBILT HOUSE — 1 West 57th Street in New York ... the divide between the wealthy and the poor is palpable. The Gilded Age was a fractious time, and amidst growing wealth and opulence ...
Gilded Age adults, though, weren’t about to strip ... Their solution was to build a public bath house—open to all and free of charge—on the Terrace, just above the Erie Canal.