Most of the Vanderbilts’ homes have either been demolished or converted into tourist attractions. Both the Breakers — Alice and Cornelius II Vanderbilt’s 70-room castle in Newport — and ...

And while the grand homes of other Staten Island families ... Homestead in a later Advance article here. Wilson notes, “Cornelius Vanderbilt is largely forgotten on the street of his birth.

The saga of one of America’s great homes all started in the late 19th century. The original Cornelius Vanderbilt, known as Commodore, was a poor Staten Island boy who had dreams of making it big.

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Vanderbilt House, named for Cornelius’s grandson, for whom it was built. William’s wife, Alva, was deeply involved in the design of the home and opted for a balance of French Gothic ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt and Sophie Johnson moved to 10 Washington Place in Greenwich Village just a few years after completing their Staten Island home. However, the Manhattan home was not the ...

The divorce of Alva and William K. Vanderbilt shocked Gilded Age society, and set the bar for today’s one-percent splits. When the news broke at the time, according to one expert, "a lot of jaws ...

Cornelius' son William Vanderbilt inherited ... On the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue once stood one of the grandest Vanderbilt homes. It sits in the middle of Millionaire's Row on Fifth ...

His son, Cornelius Jeremiah “Corneel” Vanderbilt, who lived in the Hartford ... The three-story, slate-roofed wooden home had a 14-foot-wide veranda on three sides. Designed by John C.