We have enjoyed the first two episodes. It will probably take a few episodes to fully develop all the characters. Here’s a bit about some of where the show was filmed outside of Newport, Long Island, and Manhattan:
For the majority of the exterior street scenes, we’re in Troy, New York. Made rich by trade, this was one of the country’s most prosperous cities in the 19th century and many of its landmark buildings have been preserved since this time, making it popular with filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, who shot
The Age of Innocence here.
For
The Gilded Age, the
city becomes Manhattan, and most importantly Fifth Avenue. ‘To me, Troy is the most exciting thing to see in
The Gilded Age,’ says Lauri Pitkus. ‘We selected four to five blocks that we dressed. We had the cooperation of every store owner and we refaced all the buildings with our signage and it was pretty spectacular. The architecture is there so we could have long-lens shots from the areas where we dressed and in the background, you can see the continuation of 1850s row houses.’
Apart from facings and signage, one of the most important parts of the job was resurfacing the roads. ‘That’s where things got really complicated,’ Pitkus says, ‘being able to take the main public square of their town and allowing us to close it for three weeks while we brought in dump trucks of dirt and laid it on the street. I called it Operation Desert Gilded because it got very dry and dusty and it was blowing everywhere.’
The production took over much of what’s now called the Central Troy Historic District, along 2nd and 3rd Streets and around Washington Park and Monument Square. For the
shopping trip in Episode 4, we see Marian (Louisa Jacobson) and Peggy Scott (Denée Benton) visit Bloomingdale Brothers as recreated around Troy’s Monument Square, while in Episode 3 they visit the hand of the Statue of Liberty, on temporary exhibition in Madison Square Park, as represented by Washington Park.
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Troy’s wealth of grand homes also provide the entrances to homes of other characters: ‘The exterior of the Astors, the exterior of the Morris house, exterior of the Fane house, of the boarding house – those are all Troy locations,’ explains Pitkus. ‘The Fane house is particularly famous in Troy – it’s The Castle, it was built in the 1890s and was called the John Paine Mansion, and it has a really eclectic style.’
