The architect behind Hearst’s San Simeon and many other buildings in California defied the 20th-century image of the tortured male master builder.

In honor of The Gilded Age’s third season, here are the period mansions-turned-hotels you can stay in right now.

If Gilded Age couples turned to French, English, and Italian palaces for inspiration for their private homes, financier John Pierpont Morgan became famous for finding ways to attract European ...

While it may sound far-fetched today, he mentioned that Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and John Pierpont Morgan were all eighth-grade dropouts.

Enlarged through the philanthropy of local Gilded Age grandees, including the Colt family and none other than John Pierpont Morgan, himself Hartford-born, this institution grew expeditiously during ...

Sonja Morgan is mourning the death of her ex-husband, John Adam Morgan. He was 94. Sonja was married to the the investment banker for 10 years.

Sonja Morgan’s ex-husband, John Adams Morgan, died in early February. He was 94. Sonja, 61, and John’s only child, daughter Quincy Adams Morgan, confirmed his passing via her Instagram Story ...

Was ‘Jingle Bells’ ever banned? An organist and composer, Pierpont hailed from a notable family. His father, the Rev. John Pierpont, was a prominent abolitionist and Unitarian minister. His nephew was ...

Financier John Pierpont (JP) Morgan Sr. was a great collector of books who kept a private librarian on his staff.

J. PIERPONT MORGAN: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT—Herbert L. Satterlee—Macmillan ($3.75). The elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided “magazine men,” and there is no ...