Photos show what it was like to be a servant during the Gilded Age

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Photos from Gilded Age mansions offer a glimpse into what it was like to live as a servant or staff member during that era.

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Inside Hawthorn Hill, Orville Wright's 6,200-square-foot Ohio 'success mansion'

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Hawthorn Hill.

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See inside Staatsburgh, a 30,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion whose owners held tickets for the Titanic

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Staatsburgh.

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I visited a century-old New York mansion that was modeled after a medieval French castle. Take a closer look.

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You can see the French influence here, as well.

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Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison's incredible real estate portfolio includes properties in Silicon Valley, Japan, Hawaii, and more

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Larry Ellison is the cofounder and CTO of Oracle.

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Laurene Powell Jobs buys San Francisco mansion for record $70M, just a month after splashing $94M on a Malibu property

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Laurene Powell Jobs.

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One of New York City's last surviving Gilded Age mansions is for sale for $65 million — see inside the historic home

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The Upper East Side mansion was built in 1901 at the height of New York's Gilded Age.

Evan Joseph for Sotheby's International Realty

See inside the McNeal Mansion, an abandoned 10,000-square-foot home from the 1800s that nature is reclaiming

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The McNeal Mansion is somehow still standing after decades of neglect.

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An embattled oil tycoon is selling a mansion in Singapore for $32 million. It's one of the city's status-symbol houses that business leaders covet.

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A screengrab from Google Maps Street View depicting the GCB at 1 K Tanglin Hill in Singapore
A screen grab from Google Maps Street View depicting a Good Class Bungalow belonging to former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, better known as OK Lim, in Tanglin Hill, Singapore. In land-scarce Singapore, Good Class Bungalows, or GCBs, are rare and incredibly expensive.

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See inside a $300 million Gilded Age mansion built for heirs who died on the Titanic that sat abandoned for years

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in 1897, Lynnewood Hall was built in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

Courtesy of Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation

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