Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, has set his new HBO series in America. The Gilded Age, a 10-episode historical drama, takes place during the late 19th century. Filming took place in the Sleepy Hollow area in November.
According to an HBO release, the series is set in 1882 during a period of immense economic change; huge fortunes were made in the era coined The Gilded Age.
Many of those fortunes were used to build lavish estates in the Hudson Valley, including today s Sleepy Hollow Country Club which began life in 1893 as a 75-room mansion for a Vanderbilt and the ultimate Gilded Age spread, Kykuit, the estate of John D. Rockefeller.