Wyndclyffe Estate, Southeast View

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Joshua J. Mark
by Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
published on 03 June 2021
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Wyndclyffe Estate, home of Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones (l. 1810-1876), the New York socialite who commissioned the building in 1853 and is thought to have inspired the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses", a reference to trying to match a neighbor's displays of affluence.

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