As with most period adaptations, it’s best not to get stuck on the details. Unless the details are funny, which they very ...

From Newport cottages to Manhattan palaces, explore how the Vanderbilts built America's most extravagant homes and reshaped ...

Vanderbilt went out into the pure air and won 20-0, handing the Longhorns their only defeat of the season. In turn, the Commodores finished 7-0-1 and wouldn’t sustain a loss for almost two years.

His father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, built the Breakers mansion in Newport. Sandy Point Farm, now listed for $3.5 million, has 24 stables and a 15,000-square-foot riding arena.

Sandy Point Farm, a grand Rhode Island property deeply rooted in the Vanderbilt dynasty, is offering bidders the rare chance to own a slice of equestrian luxury. Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions is ...

Alva Vanderbilt and Arabella Huntington both came to New York from the Reconstruction-era South and married immense railroad wealth, the 19th-century version of today’s tech and Wall Street riches.

The first room, which was originally designed for Cornelius Vanderbilt III, will be showcased as it had ... It’s not set in stone what timeline is the most important timeline. We’re trying to express ...

Vanderbilt’s first Black student, Joseph A. Johnson, was admitted in 1952 to the Divinity School, but segregation and Jim Crow laws persisted into the 1960s, spurring the Civil Rights Movement.

Object Details Artist Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1796 - 1881 Sitter Cornelius Vanderbilt, 27 May 1794 - 4 Jan 1877 Exhibition Label Born Staten Island, New York By organizing the fragmented transportation ...

It adorns street signs, building facades and a hall inside Grand Central, which was built during the 19 th and early 20 th century by “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt and his grandson William ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt — an eighth-generation descendant of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt — is single, having legally separated from her husband of 15 years, Rafael Feldman, we hear.