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.

The Captain America actor is looking to double his money on the mountain-view residence he bought a dozen years ago for $3.5 million. A refuge for Gordon Moore and his family for decades, Mountain ...

Fast-forward about 100 years later and designers for Walt Disney were looking for designs to build what was their newest attraction, the haunted mansion. Their theme was "Hudson Valley gothic," and ...