Before Biltmore became one of North Carolina’s most popular tourist destinations, it was simply “home” to the Vanderbilt family.
We may not have monarchs in America, but we do have our own royals, from the Vanderbilt family to the Kennedys. Here's what you don't know about them.
The Vanderbilts were once the richest family on the planet, but their decline was rapid. Here's how the Vanderbilt family lost their entire fortune.
The Newport Preservation Society fires back when 21 Vanderbilts criticize how The Breakers is being run.
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
Sheet music cover image of the song 'Funeral March to the Memory of Cornelius Vanderbilt', with original authorship notes reading 'Composed by Ad Meyer', United States, 1877. The publisher is listed...
Visit the glamorous and gilded "summer cottage" of the Vanderbilt family in Newport, Rhode Island: The Breakers.
1874: Going to the Opera, by Seymour Guy. Painted prior to William Henry Vanderbit erecting his triple mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue, Guy's conversation piece shows the magnate seated on the at the far left, in front of his wife Maria Louisa. Standing beside his mother is Frederick Vanderbilt. Seated...
There is a lot of wrong information, or downright confusion, when it comes to the Vanderbilts on the internet. I've seen articles saying they earned their fortunes in the 1930's, and that Gloria Vanderbilt's father was the man who made the millions. But the family has origins much earlier than that,
New York's first millionaires made their impact during the Gilded Age from the 1870s to the turn of the twentieth century. A new book captures the pictures from this glamorous era.
