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The William K. Vanderbilt House, also known as the Petit Chateau, was a Châteauesque mansion at 660 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street.
Idle Hour is a former Vanderbilt estate that is located in Oakdale on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. It was completed in 1901 for William Kissam Vanderbilt. Once part of Dowling College, the mansion is one of the largest houses in the United States.
William Kissam Vanderbilt I was born on December 12, 1849, in New Dorp, New York, on Staten Island.His parents were Maria Louisa Kissam and William Henry Vanderbilt, the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family who was the richest American after he took over his father's fortune in 1877 until his own death in 1885.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who built The Breakers, and William K. Vanderbilt, who built Marble House, were his brothers, as was George Vanderbilt, who commissioned North Carolina's Biltmore House ...
William Kissam Vanderbilt II house, one of the previous buildings on the site. Upscale residences were constructed around Fifth Avenue following the American Civil War. [7] [8] The lot at 660 Fifth Avenue had previously held the William K. Vanderbilt House, an 1882 châteauesque mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt for William Kissam Vanderbilt.
Built for William Henry Vanderbilt. It was later property of Cornelius Vanderbilt III and Grace Vanderbilt. Was demolished in 1947 [75] more images: William K. Vanderbilt House: 1882: Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt: New York City: Built for William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Vanderbilt. Demolished in 1927 [75] more images: Villard Houses ...
From the Vanderbilt family's jaw-dropping Rhode Island mansion to Ernest Hemingway's Floridian pad (complete with dozens of six-toed cats), we've rounded up the places you absolutely have to check ...
Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb, a.k.a. Lila Vanderbilt Webb (1860–1936) Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT "Shelburne Farms" in Shelburne, Vermont, built in 1899. Townhouse (1883) at 680 Fifth Avenue, New York. The house was a wedding gift from William H. Vanderbilt to his daughter. Demolished. [4]