See inside Staatsburgh, a 30,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion whose owners held tickets for the Titanic

Staatsburgh is about two hours from New York City. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider Staatsburgh was the home of financier Ogden Mills and his wife, socialite Ruth Livingston Mills. The Gilded Age mansion, completed in Dutchess County, New York, in 1896, features 79 rooms. The Mills had tickets for the Titanic's second trip, which never happened since it sank in 1912. When New York City socialite Ruth Livingston Mills inherited her family's country estate known as Staatsburgh in 1890, she felt...