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29. Apr. 2022 · William H. Vanderbilt, who ownd elegant mansions in New York City and Newport and an 800-acre country estate on Long Island, died in 1885 of a stroke, leaving a fortune of approximately 200 million dollars, the bulk of which was split between his two older sons, Cornelius II and William K. Vanderbilt. George W. Vanderbilt II had inherited $1 million from his grandfather and another million on ...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt II commissioned architect George B. Post to build a massive, French Château-style mansion on Fifth Avenue, between 57th and 58th Streets, in Manhattan. Post consulted with Richard Morris Hunt, who built other mansions for the Vanderbilt family. The building was e nlarged and redesigned in 1894, and demolished in 1927. It ...
Cornelius Vanderbilt II House. The Cornelius Vanderbilt II House was a large mansion built in 1883 at 1 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It occupied the frontage along the west side of Fifth Avenue from West 57th Street up to West 58th Street at Grand Army Plaza. The home was sold in 1926 and demolished to make way for the Bergdorf ...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens American. ca. 1881–83. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 700. This mantelpiece originally dominated the entrance hall of the residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II on Fifth Avenue at 57th Street (demolished 1925-27). Working for the architect George B. Post, the artist John La Farge (1835-1910) created a lavish ...
Zweite Ehe und Philanthropie. Cornelius Vanderbilt wurde am 27. Mai 1794 auf Staten Island geboren. Er kaufte sich mit 16 Jahren ein kleines Boot, wurde später ein Reeder und dann der „Eisenbahnkönig“. Cornelius Vanderbilt vor 1877 (gemeinfrei) Im „Gilded Age“, dem Goldenen Zeitalter nach dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg, brachte es ...
The Commodore died in 1877 leaving 95% of his $100 million estate to eldest son Billy. He bequeathed $7 million to Cornelius II who bought a city block on New York’s Fifth Avenue where his Vanderbilt uncles and cousins had chosen to build on ‘millionaire’s row’. Billy Vanderbilt would survive his father by only three years and on his ...
