Vanderbilt mansions

The line of New York elites reaches back a over a hundred years, with generation after generation building onto a luxurious real estate portfolio worthy of their lofty social status

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Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park Picture: Louise Vanderbilt's bedroom showing the birthing rail which she never needed - Check out Tripadvisor members' 733 candid photos and videos of Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site

The William H. Vanderbilt House, known as the Vanderbilt Triple Palace, was a mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets.

Manhattan’s last intact Gilded Age mansion is up for sale — and it’ll only set you back $50 million. But you will have to get in line, because there are already six potential buyers champing at the…

New Port, Rhode Island Some of the mansions are open for tours....and they are unbelievable

The grand hall of 640 Fifth Ave being torn apart. This was one of the Vanderbilt houses in NYC.

You can relive the glory of the Gilded Age by admiring the opulent homes the Vanderbilt family built up and down the Atlantic Coast.

CONSUELO VANDERBILT BALSAN (1877-1964) - THE PAWN Consuelo Vanderbilt was a willowy beauty of 17 when the 26-year-old Frenchman and future aviation pioneer, Jacques Balsan, first saw her and fell in love. It would be nearly another 26 years before the two would finally marry in 1921 and Consuelo would find happiness with Jacques in France, and later in Southampton. In the intervening years, both would marry others, Balsan would be celebrated for his record-breaking feats of a

I’m such a history dork! I seriously love all history and could watch hours, upon hours of the The History Channel, or even better the H2 Channel (you know, the alien shows). To get us in the mood to start making some decisions about the renovation of Stonyford, we decided to visit some of the […]