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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. [1]
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.
George Washington Vanderbilt II, the 3rd and youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt and youngest brother of Cornelius II, hired architect Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to construct Biltmore Estate on 125,000 acres (51,000 ha) near Asheville, North Carolina.
Name: George Washington Vanderbilt; Born: November 14, 1862, New Dorp, Staten Island, New York; Parents: William Henry Vanderbilt, Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt; Spouse: Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, married 1898–1914; Child: Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt; Notable Projects: Biltmore House, Biltmore Forest School, All Souls Church, Biltmore Village
In the 1880s, at the height of the Gilded Age, George Washington Vanderbilt II began to make regular visits with his mother, Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt, to the Asheville area. He loved the scenery and climate so much that he decided to build a summer house in the area, which he called his "little mountain escape".
Dec 16, 2021 · George Washington Vanderbilt II, born in 1862, was the youngest of William Henry Vanderbilt's children. He wasn't too keen on working in the family business, but he inherited his father's love of the arts and was an avid collector of various forms of artwork and books, according to The Blue Ridge Highlander .
When Cornelia was 13, tragedy struck when her father George unexpectedly died following an emergency appendectomy in Washington, D.C. in March 1914. Mrs. Vanderbilt returned to the estate after her husband’s death, but eventually consolidated the family businesses and properties.
