Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

New York City's Fifth Avenue was once home to "Millionaires' Row," where the wealthiest business tycoons of the Gilded Age built palatial homes.

T. J. Stiles wrote, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. According to Stiles, Vanderbilt s life serves as a ...

Gertrude Vanderbilt, the great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, passed her Long Island art studio down to the younger generations, who put it on the market. After more than a year, it still ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt II's bedroom. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider Cornelius Vanderbilt II only spent one summer in the Breakers before he had a stroke in 1896 and died three years later.

Known as Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877), he was an American business magnate who built his fortune by building railroads and shipping companies. Vanderbilt’s early career was ...

cornelius j. vanderbilt's suit.; the other side of the story--a rather flimsy basis to a suit for $1,000,000 --what a friend of william h. vanderbilt says. share full article. may 1, 1877.

Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On this day 133 years ago, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the world’s richest man, died. Where The ...

Last week, just as the fuss over Major General Smedley Darlington Butler’s “Mussolini Speech” had nearly died away. up popped Cornelius (“Neely”) Vanderbilt Jr. in Los Angeles. Mr ...

The palatial spread that was once the Southampton home of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt of railroad fame and fortune, is up for grabs. Dubbed ...