This 1993 American film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name depicts the Gilded Age, portraying New York's high society.
The Age of Innocence was filmed on location primarily in Troy, New York. The scenes set in the home of Mrs. Mingott were filmed in "The Castle", a fraternity house belonging to the Alpha Tau chapter of Pi Kappa Phi at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Formerly known as the Paine Mansion, after its completion in 1896 (then-estimated to cost one-half million dollars), it was heralded as the grandest house in all of Troy. The scenes depicting the country house in snow were filmed inside the circa 1737 Dutch-colonial Luykas Van Alen House in Kinderhook, New York. Only one major set was built, for an ornate ballroom sequence at the Beaufort residence.
