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- He ran the family farm at New Dorp and Woodland Beach, now the neighborhood of Midland Beach, on Staten Island, New York, where he was born, then lived with his mother in Manhattan until his own townhouse at 9 West 53rd Street was completed in 1887.
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Personal life and death. Vanderbilt's Newport cottage, The Breakers, built in 1893 by Richard Morris Hunt. On February 4, 1867, he married Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1845–1934), daughter of Abraham Evan Gwynne and Rachel Moore Flagg. [5] The two met at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church where both taught Sunday school .
George Washington Vanderbilt II (November 14, 1862 – March 6, 1914) was an American art collector and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family, which amassed a huge fortune through steamboats, railroads, and various business enterprises.
George Washington Vanderbilt was an art collector primarily known for the lavish Biltmore Estate he built in North Carolina. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
5 days ago · A look at the changing streetscape of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, once the site of Cornelius Vanderbilt II's mansion, the largest single family home in the city at the time.
5 days ago · Cornelius Vanderbilt II only lived for four years after the house was built, dying of a stroke at age 55.
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 17, 2018 · The palatial Cornelius Vanderbilt II House on Fifth Avenue survived less than 50 years. By 1927, the crown jewel of an American royal family was rubble—and today it’s Bergdorf’s.
