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Nab the Abandoned Mansion That Inspired the Phrase ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’ | Atlas Obscura

Posted by on September 21, 2016


(Photo: Public domain)

Wyndclyffe, a mansion in Rhinebeck, New York, which is about 100 miles north of New York City, has been in bad shape for decades, ever since it was abandoned in the 1950s after a series of owners couldn’t afford to maintain it. 

Owing to its size, it’s not hard to see why: 24 rooms on 80 acres, a pre-Civil War manor house that preceded the Gilded Age, when many such mansions were routinely built, that later fell into disrepair.

But Wyndclyffe (a… (View original article)

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