Vanderbilt mansions

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The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, built in 1895 for the Vanderbilt family. Designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt, it...

New Port, Rhode Island Some of the mansions are open for tours....and they are unbelievable

A Gilded Age mansion that was the childhood home of the late heiress/fashion designer, mother of CNN’s Anderson Cooper, has sold for $32.2 million, The Post can report exclusively.

The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family. The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 125,339 square feet and 62,482 square feet of living area on five floors, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Renaissance Revival style; the interior decor was by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman Jr.

The William H. Vanderbilt House, known as the Vanderbilt Triple Palace, was a mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets.

High Style in the Gilded Age: Consuelo VanderbiltCONSUELO VANDERBILT BALSAN (1877-1964) - THE PAWN Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the 26-year-old Frenchman and future aviation pioneer, Jacques Balsan, first saw her and fell in love. It would be nearly another 26 years before the two would finally marry in 1921 and Consuelo would find happiness with Jacques in France, and later in Southampton. In the intervening years, both would marry others, Balsan would be celebrated…

Oct 10, 2024 - Historically known as Hyde Park, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is one of the region's oldest Hudson River estates. For nearly two centuries, this place has been home to socially promine...

In the early 1890's millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt II commissioned a block long renovation to his already large New York City mansion that changed the world's view of the Vanderbilt's forever. In 1883 Vanderbilt had had a large townhouse built on the corner of 57th street that could suit him and his large family comfortably. But by the 1890's he felt that others were trying to trying to outdo him and his family, so he commissioned society architect George Post to build him a block long…