Why would millionaires decide to build homes close together during the Gilded Age?

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awesome781 · Answer

To assure one has the "right" neighbors. to be able to show off one's wealth by having one's peers able to see their homes, inside and out. Because in cities, the value of land was so high that even the rich didn't waste any more property than they could help to show off their wealth.(that land could be making someone money to support the gilded life). For security. Isolated homes could be targeted by criminals or mobs. With homes close to each other, security forces to protect all of them much easier http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140119124821AA8YiFk

anonymous · Answer

THank you!!!! :)