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	Vanderbilt University Daily Register
		Vanderbilt's Greek houses will soon be fitted with fire sprinklers.
		Unlike at many colleges and universities where Greek housing is available to the chapters’ general membership, at Vanderbilt no more than six students, usually the officers, are allowed to reside in each Greek house.
		Vanderbilt University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /register/articles?id=14786 (0 words)

	The portal of Saint Bartholomew's Church in New York City. - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vanderbilt and the three sculptors and McKim, Mead and White "as agent." The contract prices were $21,50C for French, $21,500 for Adams, but only $15,000 for Martiny The prices covered preparing the models and all expenses relating to casting the doors and setting them in place.
		Vanderbilt nor White liked them, and they were removed.(27) Some years passed as White tried to persuade her to allow O'Connor to make the statues.
		Vanderbilt indicated that Martiny should model new statues.(28) He did, they were accepted, and the statues of Isaiah, Elijah, Jeremiah, and Moses completed the portal in 1908.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-80864308.html (3878 words)

	William Kissam Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His sons William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944) and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970) were the last to be active in the railroads, the latter losing a proxy battle for the New York Central Railroad in the 1950s.
		Born in 1853 to a slave-owning Alabama family, she was the mother of his children and was instrumental in forcing their daughter Consuelo (1877-1964) to marry the 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895.
		After the death of his brother Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1899 he was generally regarded as head of the Vanderbilt family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Kissam_Vanderbilt (378 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York City to Cornelius Vanderbilt and Phebe Hand, a family of modest means.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was buried in the family vault in the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island.
		Vanderbilt is the great-great-great grandfather of journalist Anderson Cooper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt (1484 words)

	Vanderbilt houses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Kissam Vanderbilt built the "Marble House" in Newport, Rhode Island.
		George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862-1914), constructed "Biltmore" in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1888-95.
		Emily Vanderbilt (Wife of William Douglas Sloan) built "Elm Court" in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1887.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanderbilt_houses (311 words)

	Vanderbilt, Cornelius - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Vanderbilt, Cornelius (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Patriarch of the Vanderbilts from 1885, he directed the family investments with the aid of his brother William Vanderbilt, and he served on the boards of many corporations.
		Vanderbilt was born near New Dorp, New York.
		The eldest son of William H Vanderbilt, he was a favourite of the Commodore and became an assistant treasurer of the New York & Harlem Railroad in 1867, serving as its president from 1886–99.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Vanderbilt,%20Cornelius (310 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York to a family of modest means.
		It was her nephew by marriage that convinced Cornelius Vanderbilt to commit funding for what would become Vanderbilt University.
		Vanderbilt gave little of his vast fortune to charitable works, leaving the $1,000,000 he had promised for Vanderbilt University and $50,000 to the Church of the Strangers in New York City.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/c/co/cornelius_vanderbilt.html (550 words)

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		The house was the most palatial residence in Newport from its construction in 1852 until the appearance of the Vanderbilt houses in the 1890's.
		Marble House was more than a cottage, it was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent stone palaces.
		Vanderbilt was the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who established the family's fortune in steamships and the New York Central Railroad.
	www.angelfire.com /id2/nicolebrainard/newport.html (670 words)

	Christian Herter's decoration of the William H. Vanderbilt house in New York City. - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Vanderbilt's confidence in Herter was such that he had him design the exterior as well as the interior of the house.
		Vanderbilt applied his methodical approach to business to his house, paying close attention to every detail of the design and construction.
		After Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873-1942) inherited the house his wife called it "the Black Hole of Calcutta," and had almost all the Helter decorations removed during a complete redecoration she commissioned from Horace Trumbauer (1869-1938) of Philadelphia in 1915.(28) The house was sold out of the family in 1942, shortly before Cornelius's death.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-17046452.html (2359 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York to a family of modestmeans.
		Vanderbilt gave little of his vast fortune to charitable works, leaving the $1,000,000 he had promised for Vanderbilt University and $50,000 to the Church of the Strangersin New York City.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was buried in the family vault in the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp on StatenIsland.
	www.therfcc.org /cornelius-vanderbilt-32085.html (516 words)

	Vanderbilt Affiliated Hospitals: Vanderbilt University Hospital
		Completion of the 661-bed Vanderbilt University Hospital and a new 1200 seat auditorium contiguous to the Light Building and Veterans Hospital have greatly enhanced the service and educational facilities of the medical complex.
		Vanderbilt University Hospital admitted 33,854 patients in FY 2003 and 29,000 operative cases were performed in VUH operating suites.
		Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, a union of the best services and expertise in an environment designed and constructed to serve the special needs of young patients and their families.
	www.surgery.mc.vanderbilt.edu /surgery/resbro/restxt/ih_vumc.htm (743 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: George Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Washington Vanderbilt (1839-1864) was an American soldier and member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.
		George Washington Vanderbilt was also the name of the youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt.
		George Washington Vanderbilt (1839-1864) was the youngest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and thus a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Vanderbilt (273 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was a U.S. entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family.
		Vanderbilt would later say of his loss that "it never pays to kick a skunk." In fact this was not the last time that Gould would make a fool out of a Vanderbilt.
		Vanderbilt gave little of his vast fortune to charitable works, leaving the $1 million he had promised for Vanderbilt University and $50,000 to the Church of the Strangers in New York City.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/o/r/Cornelius_Vanderbilt_074f.html (892 words)

	George W. Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After her death he moved out, renting the house to Henry Clay Frick until the latter's own mansion was completed; upon his death it was inherited by Cornelius Vanderbilt III(1873-1942), the disinherited son of George's oldest brother Cornelius Vanderbilt II.
		George Washington Vanderbilt's greatest legacy is the largest of the Vanderbilt houses, the 255-room Biltmore House in North Carolina, on which he spent the bulk of his fortune.
		On his passing, he was interred in the Vanderbilt family mausoleum at the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /George_Washington_Vanderbilt (183 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was the fourth of nine born in Port Richmond on Staten Island New York to a family of modest means.
		Vanderbilt gave little of his vast fortune charitable works leaving the $1 000 000 had promised for Vanderbilt University and $50 000 to the Church the Strangers in New York City.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt was buried in the family in the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp Staten Island.
	www.freeglossary.com /Cornelius_Vanderbilt (634 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) was the oldest son of William Henry Vanderbilt and the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, patriarch of the Vanderbilt dynasty.
		Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his younger brothers, William K. Vanderbilt and Frederick W. Vanderbilt, succeeded their father in managing the family's vast shipping and railroad empire.
		Their daughter, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a sculptor and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/cvanderbiltII.html (485 words)

	Vanderbilt University: College of Arts and Science
		With the help of a Venture Fund grant, students in Spanish for Medicine along with Professor Lori Catanzaro, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, organized a basic screening and educational health fair for Latino Immigrants.
		The event was held at the Clairmont Apartments which houses mostly immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
		They enter a building that, after several decades as home to the biology department, is now a feverish cross roads of campus life and a new symbol of Vanderbilt's intellectual commitments.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /cas (141 words)

	Marble House of The Newport Mansions
		Marble House was more than a cottage, it was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent stone palaces.
		Vanderbilt was the grandson (in some writings, the younger brother) of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who established the family's fortune in steamships and the New York Central Railroad, and who built The Breakers.
		The house was designed by the architect Richard Morris Hunt, who modeled the house after the Petite Trianon at Versailles, and furnished by the Parisian cabinetmakers Allard and Sons.
	members.tripod.com /~savingsandloan/marble.htm (391 words)

	Update on Vanderbilt University’s Residential Colleges
		Vanderbilt today issued an update on the progress of this work, and the text of their public press release appears below.
		Vanderbilt is hewing quite closely to the Harvard-Yale configuration in its college system, with a distinct geographical area for the first-year students that is separate from the residential colleges proper.
		The first phase of College Halls at Vanderbilt, which will be known as The Commons, will bring together all first-year students in a community of 10 residence halls to be known as “houses” located on the Peabody College campus.
	collegiateway.org /news/2005-vanderbilt-college-halls (917 words)

	Streetscapes/52nd Street and Fifth Avenue; The Jeweler That Conquered a Millionaire's Row - New York Times
		From 1879 to 1882, the Vanderbilt family put up four big houses on the west side of Fifth Avenue: at the northwest corner of 51st Street, the northwest and southwest corners of 52nd, and the northwest corner of 57th.
		Although other mansion builders had arrived in the section before, the scale of the Vanderbilt houses was such that the stretch between St. Patrick's Cathedral and the Plaza Hotel, from 51st to 59th Streets, came to be viewed as their domain.
		Vanderbilt then thought his problems were solved in 1905 when Frederick G. Bourne, head of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, bought the lot, but Bourne, too, got cold feet -- by that time the St. Regis and the Gotham Hotels were beginning to tower over 55th and Fifth.
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	Definition of vanderbilt stadium
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	Vanderbilt Children's Hospital : Our Services : Services and Programs : Department of Pediatrics : Division of ...
		The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Division houses two major centers of research activity: the Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Trials Unit and the Lamb Center for Pediatric Research.
		Center activities include collaborative interactions with investigators in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Vanderbilt Vaccine Evaluation Center and the training of doctoral and postdoctoral students, as well as residents and fellows.
		Vanderbilt University is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.
	www.vanderbiltchildrens.com /interior.php?mid=329 (221 words)

	Vanderbilt University:
		She studied both the architecture of the houses as well as the elements of their well preserved floor mosaics and wall paintings.
		As a classicist she is especially intrigued by the value of using both texts and material culture in the study of Greek households.
		Tsakirgis is a member of the Governing Board of the Archaeological Institute of America, an international organization of archaeologists, and is also the secretary/treasurer of the Nashville Society of the AIA as well as a national lecturer.
	sitemason.vanderbilt.edu /site/gcjxVC/new_page_builder_2 (361 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Lycee Francais De New York
		And on Dec. 6, a 40-foot-wide house at 10-12 East 94th Street that housed the offices of Louise Wise Services, an adoption agency, was purchased by Nicholas Rohatyn, son of the former ambassador to France, for $7.4 million.
		The five-story house at 3 East 95th Street was built in 1921 in the 18th-century French style and was purchased by the Lycee in 1937.
		The neighboring five-story house at 7 East 72nd Street, which was built in 1899 for Oliver Gould Jennings, director of the National Fuel Gas Company, is 28 feet wide, with a limestone facade, large French windows and a total of 18,256 square feet.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /UES/UES047.htm (2649 words)

	HV/Net - Hudson Valley Network
		As you contemplate the Vanderbilt Estate, think of it as a tapestry bound together over the centuries by the common thread of enlightened ownership; beautiful and varied, it attests to the lifestyle and interests of the privileged in the Hudson River Valley.
		In Frederick Vanderbilt's bedroom antique twisted columns that flank the bed are brought together with the settee and side chairs of Spanish influence, the built-in bed and cabinet of no particular style, and the contemporary desk and upholstered pieces.
		It was to remain in the Vanderbilt family for over four decades as their center for entertaining in the Spring and Fall.
	www.hvnet.com /houses/vanderbilt (2027 words)

	Greater Asheville Chamber of Commerce, North Carolina
		This dream was George Vanderbilt's more than 100 years ago, and it has survived to continue as a thriving community for visitors and locals alike.
		The fourth and youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, George Washington Vanderbilt II was named after the youngest child of the family founders, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Sophia Johnson.
		An intellectual, this Vanderbilt lacked the Protestant work ethic and had little interest in the family business, preferring instead to spend his large inheritance on a lavish lifestyle frequently referred to as that of the idle rich.
	www.ashevillechamber.com /biltmore_estate_house.html (687 words)

	Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He helped contract bridge spread from 1926 to 1929 by espousing the game, and modernized it with bidding and scoring changes.
		He presented the Vanderbilt Cup team trophy in 1928 and twice won it.
		Vanderbilt was born in Oakdale, New York; he was also Harvard Law School graduate and railroad magnate.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Vanderbilt,%20Harold%20Stirling (114 words)

	Cornelius Vanderbilt in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cornelius was the fourth of nine children born in Port Richmond on Staten Island in New York City to a family of modest means.
		Vanderbilt was 70 when he began in earnest building his rail empire.
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	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Cornelius_Vanderbilt (1432 words)

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