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It was one of several properties owned by Frederic William Vanderbilt, a scion of the prominent Vanderbilt family, and his wife Louise Holmes Anthony, according to the NPS. Vanderbilt Mansion is ...
1877 was a long time ago. Was Vanderbilt the richest man in the world? During William Vanderbilt's time as the world's wealthiest man, he said these words. Although he had everything the world had to ...
William Vanderbilt II, who inherited substantial wealth, once shared a reflection on this impact: “My life was never destined to be quite happy. It was laid out along lines which I did not ...
Eventually portions of the park and the farm were bought by Dorthea and Walter’s son Walter Jr. It was in 1895, that Fredrick ...
Conrad Williams Jr. “It never gets stale,” says Ellen Mason, who has spent the past 18 years leading tours of Eagle’s Nest, the Spanish revival mansion built by William Vanderbilt in 1910.