Eagle's Nest was built for William K. Vanderbilt II between 1910 and 1936, and is now home to a museum, planetarium, hiking ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt III, a descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, was found stabbed to death in his Staten Island home Thursday morning, police said. The partly clad body of Vanderbilt, 72 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. By organizing the fragmented transportation system in the United States, Cornelius Vanderbilt facilitated continental ...

Commissioned by Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and the grandfather of modern-day media figure Anderson Cooper, the estate was designed to reflect the family’s ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt II's 70-room mansion gives the UK's Royal Lodge a run for its money. Vanderbilt, who was born into wealth and the railroad industry, built a 183,300-square-foot mansion for ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt was your stereotypical first-generation tycoon — the kind who believes competition isn’t good but something you crush.

Cornelius Vanderbilt saw the trouble coming. By 1873, the 79-year-old "Commodore," as he was called, was no stranger to risk: calculated bets with steamboat and railroad companies had made him by ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt, the original "robber baron," was a self-made steamboat magnate who mastered the dynamics of the emerging railroad industry, challenged the financier Jay Gould in the New York ...

Dan Kruse Classics plans to auction off a 1913 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost next week in Central Texas that was once owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt II.