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From the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed some of the best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators in the United States to build a notable string of townhouses in New York City and palaces on the East Coast of the United States. Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now National Historic Landmarks.
Painting of the Vanderbilt family, 1874 The Breakers, built in 1892–1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Newport, Rhode Island Frederick William Vanderbilt's home, now known as the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York. The Vanderbilt mausoleum at the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island, New York
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
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.
Vanderbilt Mansion. Located a couple of hours from the center of New York City is the Vanderbilt Mansion, a gilded-age estate that was the country home for the renowned Vanderbilt family. However ...
Pages in category "Vanderbilt family residences" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Breakers mansion was commissioned to be built by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1893 and quickly became the summer home for the Vanderbilt family for generations to come,
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