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Estate (s) Vanderbilt houses. The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy.
George Vanderbilt had a beautiful new family home, but as America’s most eligible bachelor of his time, no one to share it with. That all changed on April 28, 1898, when he proposed to Edith Stuyvesant Dresser.
Jun 16, 2023 · Frederick W. Vanderbilt lived in this Beaux Arts–style home from 1895 to 1938. Today it’s a National Historic Site, with 200 acres of National Park Service land. The building was...
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 an unequaled string of townhouses in New York City and palaces on the East Coast of the United States.
Jan 29, 2021 · As told by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II in his book Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt, not even 30 years after his death in 1877, the Vanderbilt family had fallen off the list of the wealthiest families in the United States.
What was George Vanderbilt II’s vision for building Biltmore, and how does the legacy continue to live on today? Find out in our timeline.
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Apr 11, 2012 · Apr 11, 2012, 7:39 AM PDT. Continuing in our series profiling fabulously wealthy American families, we present to you the history of the Vanderbilts. Advertisement. What sets this brood apart is...
