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Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (1852–1946), (Wife of William Douglas Sloane) Townhouse (1882), 642 Fifth Avenue, part of the Vanderbilt Triple Palace, provided to them by her father. Demolished. "Elm Court" in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1887. It is the largest shingle-style house in the United States.
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 ...
William K. Vanderbilt House This page was last edited on 27 July 2015, at 00:13 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
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 ...
The Vanderbilts' prominence lasted until the mid-20th century, when the family's 10 great Fifth Avenue mansions were torn down, and most other Vanderbilt houses were sold or turned into museums in what has been referred to as the "Fall of the House of Vanderbilt". [1] [2] Branches of the family are found on the United States East Coast.
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
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 ...
Isaac Bell House: a Shingle style house and "summer cottage" of Isaac Bell Jr. in Newport, Rhode Island; Kingscote: a Gothic Revival house, museum, and the former residence of George Noble Jones in Newport, Rhode Island; Marble House: a Beaux-Arts architecture style mansion and residence of William Kissam Vanderbilt in Newport, Rhode Island