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Joe van Riper
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About
America's Castles is a documentary television series that aired on A&E Network from 1994 to 1998. Through interviews, historic photos and newly shot footage, the program documents the mansions and summer homes of the high society of The Gilded Age. The series is narrated by Joe van Riper and many episodes feature architectural expert Richard Guy Wilson.
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Season 011995
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Tour America's grandest castles, mansions and estates with these video travel guides of extravagant abodes built by some of the country's richest families. From Rockefeller's Hudson Valley estate to Trump's palatial Palm Beach getaway, the doors are open for a grand tour of the lavish decor, architecture and grounds of the great Southern plantations, Florida's estates, the mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, the Adirondack camps and the palaces of the Gold Coast.
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Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Joe van Riper Narrator, Self - Narrator
Richard Guy Wilson Self - Architectural Historian, Self, Self - Architectual Historian, University of Virginia
John Tschirch Self - Architectural Historian, Self - The Preservation Society of Newport County
Susan Ward Self - Director of Heritage Communications, Self - Specialist in Historic Sites
Kathryn A. Jacob Self - Author
Kathryn Smith Self - Author
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Self - Director, Frank Lloyd Wright Archives
Lyman Shepard Self - Frank Lloyd Wright Historian
Juli Aulik Self - Director, Taliesin Preservation Commission
Cornelia Brierly Self - Original Taliesin Fellowship Member
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