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This 70-room villa was built by architect Richard Morris Hunt in 1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, President and Chairman of the New York Central Railroad. The Breakers is the grandest of Newport, Rhode Island's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.
When Cornelius Vanderbilt II was born on 27 November 1843, in New Dorp, Richmond, New York, United States, his father, William Henry Vanderbilt I, was 22 and his mother, Maria Louisa Kissam, was 22. He married Alice Claypoole Gwynne on 7 February 1867, in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States.
16 de abr. de 2010 · Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was a shipping and railroad tycoon, and a self-made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century.
17 de nov. de 2023 · The stunning mansion was purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt II in the fall of 1885, for a price tag of $400,000 — in the largest real estate deal ever signed in the area at the time. The original Breakers mansion in 1887, before the house burned down in 1892 and Cornelius Vanderbilt rebuilt it in its current form.
27 de nov. de 2016 · Added: Apr 12, 2004. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8628665. Source citation. Heir to the Vanderbilt Fortune. He was an American financier, businessman, socialite, and since the grandson and namesake of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, he was the head of the third generation of the Vanderbilt family. His grandfather left him $5 million.
Cornelius Vanderbilt IV Grace Vanderbilt: Parent(s) Cornelius Vanderbilt II Alice Claypoole Gwynne: Military career: Service: New York Army National Guard United States Army Organized Reserve Corps: Years of service: 1901–1917 (National Guard) 1917–1919 (Army) 1919–1935 (Reserve) Rank: Brigadier General: Unit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
11 de may. de 2018 · Cornelius Vanderbilt's grandsons, most notably Frederick William (1856-1938) and William K. II (1849-1920), multiplied their inheritances into vast business and real estate holdings. They also spent money in ways that their grandfather would have considered frivolous.
