In the late 1800s, the Berkshires was a prime spot ... got its name from a large elm tree that stood at the entrance to the mansion, but later succumbed to disease. A host to some of the world ...

The house in which Commodore Vanderbilt pesided during the last twenty years of his life, No 10 Washington place, was built by himself, and under his own direction. It was commenced in May ...

Comparing attendance at the Vanderbilt Mansion home only with visits to the home of FDR, the nation’s 32nd president outranks the seasonal home of the late Frederick Vanderbilt and his wife ...

The National Park Service offers tours of the mansion to the public. During the Gilded Age in the late 1800s, railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest man in America with a net worth ...