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2. West Hill Historic District (West Hartford, Connecticut)

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   The West Hill Historic District is a prestigious residential subdivision of the town of West Hartford, Connecticut.Originally the site of the estate of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, son of transportation magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, it was developed as a planned subdivision of upper-class residences in the 1920s.

3. Clayton Homes - Wikipedia

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   Clayton Homes (or Clayton) is the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the United States. [1] [2] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. [3] Clayton Homes' corporate headquarters are in Maryville, Tennessee. [4]

4. Elm Court (Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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   Elm Court was built as the Berkshire summer home of William Douglas Sloane and Emily Thorn Vanderbilt, a member of the wealthy American Vanderbilt family. Designed by premier architectural firm Peabody and Stearns , with gardens and landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted , Elm Court is the largest Shingle style house in the United States ...

5. Idle Hour - Wikipedia

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   After Vanderbilt's death in 1920, the mansion went through several phases and visitors, including a brief stay during Prohibition by gangster Dutch Schultz. [6] Around that time, cow stalls, pig pens and corn cribs on the farm portion of Idle Hour were converted into a short-lived bohemian artists' colony, known as the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians, that included figures such as ...

6. Vanderbilt houses - Wikipedia

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   "Oakland Farm" (remodeled and expanded 1901), Portsmouth, Rhode Island, colonial era home he transformed into a summer home. "Vanderbilt Hotel" (1913), a hotel in Manhattan, New York, on Park Avenue and 34th Street. The penthouse served as a city residence for him. Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi (1886–1965) She was the wife of Count László ...

7. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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   Built for a Vanderbilt family heir, Biltmore is the largest home in the United States Built for another Vanderbilt family heir, The Breakers, a Newport, Rhode Island seaside mansion epitomizes the Gilded Age mansion era with its opulence and size