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Untold Histories Blog

Explore new perspectives on life in the Gilded Age.

This blog series considers life behind the scenes at the Frick mansion and introduces some of the many people not named Frick who lived and worked at 1 East 70th Street when it was a private home.

Detail of a chart titled "Bell Schedule & First Floor Electric Wiring"

Untold Histories: The Push of a Button

Two photo portraits of a woman, in sepia at left, and a man, in black at white at right

Untold Histories: Minerva Stone, Housekeeper (Part 2)

photo of Minerva Stone, with short hair, wearing long necklace and fur collar

Untold Histories: Minerva Stone, Housekeeper (Part 1)

Five labeled buttons underneath decorative gold molding

Untold Histories: A Parallel Household

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