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The Dark Story of Tiffany's Burned Down Mansion Laurelton Hall

Look at that… at 3 AM in 1957, one of America’s greatest artistic mansions vanished in flames. Laurelton Hall, the 84-room glass masterpiece built by Louis Comfort Tiffany, was reduced to ash before dawn. This wasn’t just a house — it was a total work of art filled with iridescent Favrile glass, glowing mosaics, exotic gardens, and a glass ceiling that turned sunlight into liquid color. After Tiffany’s death and the Great Depression, the estate fell into neglect. Maintenance costs soared, staff vanished, and the property was marked for demolition. Then the mysterious fire came first. Today, ordinary suburban homes sit where this $65 million wonder once stood — with no plaque, no memorial, and no memory. Fragments survive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, but the unified masterpiece is gone forever. This is the story of how beauty, money, labor, neglect, and time erased a wonder — and how we quietly chose the ordinary over the extraordinary.