Of all of Newport's famous homes, The Breakers mansion is the cream of the summer cottage crop. Commissioned in 1893 by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers is a Renaissance-style ...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt II, succeeded him as the president and chairman of the New York Central Railroad in 1885. As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion on the ...
The 33-room Vanderbilt, a Georgian Revival mansion, has been part of several ... Gwynne Vanderbilt in honor of his father Cornelius Vanderbilt II. He donated the building to the city to be used ...
Back in 1896 when auburn-haired Grace Graham Wilson bagged young Cornelius Vanderbilt ... of the luster off Grace Vanderbilt’s crown. High taxes and World War II dealt her even harder blows.
HYDE PARK — State Police identified the woman found dead last month at Vanderbilt Mansion as 69-year-old Helen Pardini of Poughkeepsie. For a month, the case has vexed police and the public.
HYDE PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — State Police have been investigating the suspicious death of a woman found at the Vanderbilt Mansion historical site in Hyde Park since December 6. On Monday ...
PENDING: Access the advance paper when available. Speaker: Joni Hersch (Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Economics) Abstract: There is substantial evidence of discriminatory treatment of ...
It was built by Gilded Age railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt — grandfather of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who gifted Yale the funds to build the namesake Vanderbilt Hall on Old Campus to honor his ...
When men review the career of a promiment citizen like CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, their most natural inclination is to look therein for some special lesson. VANDERBILT'S life was one of material success.