Halliehurst and Graceland, a pair of mansions on the grounds of Davis and Elkins College, are the key surviving buildings associated respectively with two of the Gilded Age's most important business and political figures, Stephen Benton Elkins and Henry Gassaway Davis. United personally by Elkins' marriage to Davis' daughter, they became partners in business and though titular political opponents, shared a common interest in shaping federal legislation that favored the interests of those such as themselves who were "captains of industry."

Image: Davis & Elkins College

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