Gloria Vanderbilt dead at age 95: 'What an extraordinary woman,' son Anderson Cooper says. George Washington Vanderbilt, who commissioned the Biltmore House in 1882, was Gloria Vanderbilt's great ...

George Washington Vanderbilt’s Gilded Age mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt remains a popular tourist destination to this day. By Claudia Williams. February 29, 2024.

After a two-month journey through England and France in 1889, George Washington Vanderbilt III decided to entrust the design of the Biltmore Estate to American architect Richard Morris Hunt.

When the disgustingly wealthy railroad heir George Washington Vanderbilt II (or maybe the III—the family literally couldn’t decide what number to give him) built a massive mansion outside ...