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As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, as a summer escape for his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, and their seven children.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, built The Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot summer "cottage," in 1895. ... The dining room at the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park ...
The 7,000-square-foot Georgian townhouse is back on the market for $18.5 million.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II House: 1883: Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt George B. Post: New York City: Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Alice Vanderbilt. Demolished in 1926 [75]: 25 more images: Florence and Eliza Vanderbilt House: 1883: Châteauesque: John B. Snook: New York City: Built for Florence Vanderbilt and Eliza Vanderbilt. Were ...
Townhouse, her second, a 70-room house at 1 East 71st Street, New York. Designed by Whitney Warren. Demolished. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938) Hyde Park, Hyde Park, NY "Hyde Park" in Hyde Park, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896–1899, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site.
His estate at the time of his death was appraised at $72,999,867 (equivalent to $2.67 billion [13] in 2023 dollars [13]), $20 million of which was in real estate. [14] Alice lived another 35 years until her death on April 22, 1934, in her home at 857 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, where she had moved after the 1926 sale of the 57th Street mansion ...
The sprawling property, commissioned by Anderson Cooper’s grandfather, was a hub for horse breeding and lavish gatherings during the Gilded Age.
West portico. Historically known as Hyde Park, the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is one of the area's oldest Hudson River estates. [3] The earliest development of the estate began in 1764 when Dr. John Bard purchased land on the east side of the Albany Post Road, where he built Red House and developed the agricultural aspects of the eastern section of the property that continued ...