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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 ...
I've toured eight Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Hudson Valley, New York. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, built The Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300 ...
The gate at The Breakers. Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased the grounds in 1885 for $450,000 (equivalent to $15.3 million in 2023). [4] The previous mansion on the property was owned by Pierre Lorillard IV; it burned on November 25, 1892, and Vanderbilt commissioned famed architect Richard Morris Hunt to rebuild it in splendor.
Biltmore Estate: Asheville, North Carolina: George Washington Vanderbilt II: The Biltmore Company [3] 1895: Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted: 2: 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m 2) [4] Oheka Castle: West Hills, New York: Otto Hermann Kahn: Gary Melius [5] 1919: Châteauesque: Delano and Aldrich: 3 105,000 sq ft (9,800 m 2 ...
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
The sprawling property, commissioned by Anderson Cooper’s grandfather, was a hub for horse breeding and lavish gatherings during the Gilded Age.
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; Miramar: a French neoclassical-style mansion and the summer residence of George Dunton Widener in Newport ...
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