Charles Schwab Built These Mansions & Died Penniless | The Many Mansions of Charles Schwab

Visit the VSA website to learn how you can get involved today: https://victoriansociety.org/ In 1901, Charles M. Schwab became president of the world's first billion-dollar company. Within a few decades he was richer than Andrew Carnegie, richer than Henry Clay Frick, and the owner of three of the most extravagant houses in America, including a French chateau on Riverside Drive so large it had six elevators, an indoor swimming pool, a fifty-foot gymnasium, and a hidden Aeolian organ whose pipes ran through every wall of the house. 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 Public Domain Photos from: Library of Congress CC BY-SA 3.0 Photos from: Wikipedia User: Geowizerd, Justas Assets from: Envato Elements Music from Epidemic Sound