granddaughter of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, and her family. Getty Images With 89 acres planned by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Elm Court Estate is a piece of design ...

The Vanderbilt family's wealth grew out of the shipping and railroad industries, both of which were largely monopolized by the the family patriarch, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, in the late ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt was one of the world's richest men when he died in 1877, leaving a $100 million fortune to his heirs. In just four generations, the Vanderbilt descendants squandered the ...