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Florham is a former Vanderbilt estate that is located in Madison and Florham Park, New Jersey. It was built during the 1890s for Hamilton McKown Twombly and his wife, Florence Adele Vanderbilt, a member of the Vanderbilt family. Now part of the Florham Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the mansion is one of the ten largest houses in the ...
- A Masterpiece of The Gilded Age
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The story of “Florham,” now the Florham Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, begins over 110 years ago. Heiress Florence Vanderbilt, granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, renowned as the richest man in America, and her husband, financier Hamilton McKown Twombly, wanted a country estate. In 1887 they came to the quiet Morris County c...
In 1957 Esso Research and Engineering Company acquired 650 acres of the Twombly farmland. In 1958 Fairleigh Dickinson University purchased 187 acres of property, including the Mansion and related buildings, for an academic campus, now the Florham Campus, which opened that fall. Florham’s period architecture has stood the test of time. One hundred y...
In 1990 the Friends of Florham was organized. This volunteer organization assists University officials in preserving the historic elements of the campus. The Friends also sponsor lectures on historic landscape design, architecture and an ongoing restoration of Florham’s period gardens. Membership is open to the public, and all are encouraged to joi...
The Vanderbilts, Abrams, NY, 1989. The Vanderbilts and The Gilded Age: Architectural Aspirations 1879-1901 by John Foreman and Robbie Pierce Stimson — a chapter on each of the houses: Biltmore, Shelburne, the Breakers, Marble House, Florham, and others — built by eight grandchildren of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt.
Florham was built between 1893 and 1899 for Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, the daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt, and her husband, Hamilton McKown Twombly. This 100-room mansion, designed by McKim, Mead & White, was inspired by English country houses and sits on a 1,200-acre estate.
Florham. Florham Park, Morris County, New Jersey. Completed in 1897, for Hamilton McKown Twombly (1849-1910) and his wife Florence Adele Vanderbilt (1854–1952). Built by the sister of the men who put up The Breakers, Marble House etc., the Twombly's 102-room mansion - inspired by the "new" 17th century wing of an old English palace - was ...
Florham, the country estate of the Vanderbilt-Twombly family from 1897 to 1955, has been the Florham Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1958. Despite its present academic function, the estate—as is apparent to visitors—maintains its historic character of its prominent past through the ongoing presence of buildings and landscaping designed by the most significant architects of ...
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Welcome to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Florham Campus. This is the Mansion. The Twombly Mansion was the country estate of Florence Vanderbilt and Hamilton Twombly, and was used only four months of the year, September, October, May, and June.
