In today’s Journal entry, we spotlight another fascinating stop on our new Millionaires, Mansions & Moonshine tour. At the iconic Heurich House, we tell stories about a dynamic immigrant turned business tycoon, the art of brewing, massive fires, World War I and spontaneous fermentation. OH MY!
Read MoreOn Historic America’s new Millionaires, Mansions & Moonshine tour, we talk about the presidency of Warren G. Harding and how scandal plagued it was. Wanna know how bad things got when Warren was in the White House? Today’s article paints the picture.
Read MoreHistoric 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.
Read MoreAs the only daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt — Alice Roosevelt Longworth certainly kept her father’s hands full. Known for her sharp wit and eccentric antics, “Princess Alice” was quite the celebrity during her teenage years. So much so that her father once said: ““I can be President of the United States or I can attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both!”
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