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Hace 4 días · Learn about the history and architecture of the Breakers, the grandest Gilded Age mansion built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice. Discover how the Vanderbilt family lived, inherited, and donated the house, and why it was sold in 2018.
- Then & Now: The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion - Untapped New York
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- Then & Now: The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion - Untapped New York
Hace 4 días · Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s 1882 (1893 renovated) mansion exemplifies both the ambitions and extravagance of the nation’s prosperous. When Commodore Vanderbilt died in 1877, he left...
Hace 4 días · The first gift of Old Master drawings, comprising 670 sheets, was presented as a single group in 1880 by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, though most proved to be misattributed. The Vanderbilt gift launched the collection, and the Department of Paintings also eventually acquired drawings (including by Michelangelo and Leonardo ).
Hace 5 días · Cornelious Vanderbilt II previously owned it and later sold it for $7,600,000 at Christie’s in London in 2013. This antique rug is one of only twelve known Millefluer rugs from the Mughal Empire, which ruled modern-day India, dating between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Hace 6 días · When Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the $1 million gift that founded Vanderbilt University in 1873, he had never visited the Tennessee city that would carry on his legacy.
Hace 2 días · Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. 119 Vanderbilt Park Road, Hyde Park; nps.gov/vama. The “Gilded Age” draws inspiration from the ostentatiously wealthy Vanderbilt family, whose Hudson. Valley mansion is one of a collection of homes owned by railroad tycoon Frederick William Vanderbilt, grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
