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Vor 3 Tagen · 854 Fifth Avenue is Manhattan’s last intact Gilded Age Mansion, built in 1905 for stockbroker and future governor of Rhode Island R. Livingston Beeckman. Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane White and ...
Emily Thorn Vanderbilt (January 31, 1852 – July 28, 1946) was an American philanthropist and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She financed the creation of New York's Sloane Hospital for Women in 1888 with an endowment of more than $1,000,000.
Elm Court was built as the Berkshire summer home of William Douglas Sloane and Emily Thorn Vanderbilt, a member of the wealthy American Vanderbilt family. Designed by premier architectural firm Peabody and Stearns , with gardens and landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted , Elm Court is the largest Shingle style house in the United States, with 106 rooms.
George J. Gould Mansion. 857 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1867, she married Cornelius Vanderbilt II who she met while they were both teaching Sunday School. When she died, she left an estate valued at $15 million which contained some $10 million in cash. Her primary beneficiary was her daughter Gladys.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a 19th Century American shipping and railroad tycoon. He was best known as the patriarch of the socially prominent Vanderbilt family of New York, and as the founder of the New York Central Railroad. [1] [2] Cornelius was born and grew up in Staten Island, New York. He was the child of Cornelius van Derbilt and Phebe ...
The Verley Archer Collection consists of materials relating to the Vanderbilt Family Reunion held in conjunction with the Centennial Celebration of Vanderbilt University, March 16-17, 1973. Ms. Archer conducted extensive research into the genealogy of the Vanderbilt family and located descendants of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt living in 1973.
His siblings were Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt, Emily Thorn Vanderbilt, Florence Adele Vanderbilt, Frederick William Vanderbilt, Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, and George Washington Vanderbilt II. Career. Vanderbilt inherited $55 million (equal to about $1.9 billion today) from his father in 1885. He managed his family railroad ...
