The $200M Palace That Destroyed Its Builder : Oheka Castle

Описание: Cold Spring Hills, Long Island, 1919. On the highest point on the island, a German-Jewish banker completes the second-largest private residence in America—127 rooms of French Renaissance grandeur, 443 acres of Olmsted gardens, eleven million dollars transformed into limestone and marble.
Otto Hermann Kahn believed he was building his legacy. In reality, he was constructing his prison. Every architectural detail, every cultural contribution, every lavish dinner party was part of an exhausting performance: proof that a Jewish banker could belong to American aristocracy, that wealth and taste could overcome prejudice, that perfection could purchase safety.
It didn't work. The Great Depression destroyed his fortune. Anti-Semitism ensured his acceptance never came. He died in 1934, nearly broke, his palace immediately abandoned. The man who financed the Metropolitan Opera and launched Eugene O'Neill left behind only a beautiful shell—and a dark lesson about the limits of assimilation, the poison of prejudice, and the American lie that success conquers all.
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