As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, as a summer escape for his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, and their seven children.

Everything visitors see today while exploring the Newport mansions is thanks to the Preservation Society of Newport County, a ...

Vanderbilt, who was born into wealth and the railroad industry, built a 183,300-square-foot mansion for him and his family as a summer get away in Newport, Rhode Island.

New York City's Fifth Avenue was once home to "Millionaires' Row," where the wealthiest business tycoons of the Gilded Age ...

The Breakers, a Vanderbilt mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, is famous for its size and opulence. The Breakers. Alexander Nesbitt/The Preservation Society of Newport County.

The Vanderbilts occupied the mansion until 2018. Gladys Vanderbilt, the great-granddaughter of Cornelius, leased the property in 1972 to the nonprofit Preservation Society of Newport County.

NEWPORT, Rhode Island ... Take Marble House, the Beaux Arts mansion built by Alva and Willie Vanderbilt. It cost $11 million to build in 1892 – the equivalent of $332 million in 2021 dollars.

Take a Gilded Age-themed trip to Newport, Rhode Island to see these ... Russells’ house is made up of several rooms of Newport mansions, ... of the Vanderbilt family’s social and financial ...