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HBO's "The Gilded Age" films scenes in real historic mansions from the time period.
Julian Fellowes, the creator behind HBO’s The Gilded Age, has taken plenty of cues from real history for the characters of ...
During the Gilded Age, Cornelius ... 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 ...
His grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, succeeded him as the president and chairman of the New York Central Railroad in 1885. As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot ...
Webb was married to Vanderbilt Webb, a descendant of Cornelius ... Farm because the family, based in Greenwich Village, isn’t spending as much time there now that the children are in school ...
Live music, children’s activities, food trucks and the tree lighting in front of the ... Coming off a big win at Vanderbilt, the newly ranked #23 Gamecocks take on #24 Missouri Tigers.
But nestled among them is a quartet of provenance pieces from Emily “Paddy” Vanderbilt Wade. Pieces from the estate of the chemist, philanthropist, and great-granddaughter of Cornelius ...
When Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1877, the industrialist left behind roughly $100 billion in today's dollars. Yet, at a Vanderbilt family reunion less than a century later, in 1973, not a single ...
But nestled among them is a quartet of provenance pieces from Emily “Paddy” Vanderbilt Wade. Pieces from the estate of the chemist, philanthropist, and great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt will ...