This Fifth Avenue home of William K and Alva Vanderbilt wasn’t just a home, it was a tool Alva used to break in to New York City society. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt, this opulent mansion is ...

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The 20,000-square-foot mansion at 854 Fifth Avenue is listed at the ... modeled on Versailles.) In 1946 Vanderbilt and her husband sold what the New York Times called at the time "one of the ...

But it's not just the geographic center of New York ... mansions built by the Vanderbilts and the Astors now is a major ...

It's unique. The New York Historical Society//Getty Images Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, 1895. JS: Fifth Avenue and Broadway, I would think, are the two most iconic New York avenues.

Located on one of the most the iconic streets in the world, the "Duke House" was built during the Gilded Age and remains as one of Fifth Avenue’s last true mansions, according to New York City ...

Immigrants arrived in New York City with little to nothing in their pockets, while just uptown some of the richest men and women in America built mansions ... And Fifth Avenue becomes the place ...

Fifth Avenue is known globally ... sidewalks for pedestrians, establish new bike lanes and cordon off green spaces. Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s mansion at 57th and Fifth, the largest private ...

Located on one of the most the iconic streets in the world, the "Duke House" was built during the Gilded Age and remains as one of Fifth Avenue’s last true mansions, according to New York City ...