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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.
Today, many of them are museums open to the public. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, built The Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot summer "cottage," in 1895 ...
Built for Frank H. Buhl, today is a house museum. Woodmont: 1894 Châteauesque: William Lightfoot Price: Gladwyne: Built for Alan Wood Jr., later the residence of evangelist Father Divine, and the center of his International Peace Mission movement. Today is open for tours. more images: Negley–Gwinner–Harter House: 1871: Second Empire
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.
The 7,000-square-foot Georgian townhouse is back on the market for $18.5 million.
Townhouse, her second, a 70-room house at 1 East 71st Street, New York. Designed by Whitney Warren. Demolished. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938) Hyde Park, Hyde Park, NY "Hyde Park" in Hyde Park, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896–1899, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site.
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 ...
The sprawling property, commissioned by Anderson Cooper’s grandfather, was a hub for horse breeding and lavish gatherings during the Gilded Age.