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

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

On January 2, 1895, the richest of the rich gathered in a palatial home near the southeastern edge of Central Park for the society debut of Gertrude Vanderbilt, daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II.

As the new series of Julian Fellowes' historical drama airs, the Downton Abbey creator thinks Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos would ...

The Russells and van Rhijns might not be in residence, but these historic homes are still fascinating—and you won’t have to use the servants’ entrance.

Whether oozing with extravagant opulence or dripping with Southern charm, these mansions and plantations are worthy of a ...

Born into two legacies-the Vanderbilts of Gilded Age lore and the Wades of Western Union fame-Emily was the daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt III, former governor of Rhode Island, and a direct ...

A new exhibition at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will explore the rise of high finance and its societal ...

Ambitious and socially strategic, Alva sought to change that. In 1875, at 22 years old, she married William Kissam Vanderbilt, grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius ‘Commodore’ Vanderbilt. As ...

In a recent column, Don Sorensen claims, without providing any factual support or evidence, that there are more billionaires ...

(The calculations for 2008 are based on the Federal Reserve's M2 figure for the stock of money in the economy.)</p><p>In Vanderbilt's will, he left about 95% of this fortune to his oldest son ...