This combination of photos shows, from left, the Pompeian Room of the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, the cover of "An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,” by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen and the exterior of Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. (Jonathan Wallen/Images Publishing Group via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — “What surroundings, Mrs. Russell. We could be at Tsarskoye Selo," exclaims Nathan Lane's snooty Ward McAllister at his first glance of her opulent Fifth Avenue mansion on "The Gilded Age.”