Posts tagged Millionaires
Millionaires, Mansions & Moonshine: Andrew Mellon

Historic America is excited to relaunch its Millionaires, Mansions, & Moonshine tour this upcoming weekend. The tour is a journey through all the splashy scandals and outrageous misbehavior of DC’s uber wealthy from the Gilded Age through Prohibition. It’s centered in DuPont Circle; a millionare’s enclave filled with amazing mansions of a bygone era. One of our favorite characters on the tour is Andrew Mellon - the famous art collector, businessman, and US Treasury Secretary who loomed large on the DC scene. Today’s entry is a look behind-the-scenes at one of our tour stops.

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