What Happened to the Biggest House on Staten Island? | Bay Villa | NO AI

For a few remarkable decades in the 1800s, the green hills of Staten Island’s North Shore were home to some of America’s richest families, and the grandest estate of them all was Bay Villa. In 1868 Anson Phelps Stokes, born into the Phelps Dodge fortune and determined to build on it, bought this Second Empire mansion high above New York Harbor in the village of New Brighton as a country home for his growing family. How we make our videos: Camera: Sony a6400 Microphone: Shure SM7B Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 XLR Cable: Mogami Gold XLR Cable Green Screen: Neewer Green Screen Teleprompter: Neewer Teleprompter Production Credits: Scripts: Ken Weiss Storyboard: Ken Weiss Video Editor: Dalton Sturm Every episode of This House is built on primary source research: deeds, fire insurance maps, original newspapers, architectural records, and private photo archives. Real research, written and narrated by a real person. Location: Staten Island, NY Public Domain Photos from: Library of Congress Assets from: Envato Elements Music from Epidemic Sound