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	sedona legend helen frye
		Vanderbilt wished, and as those associated with her in plans for the ball whole-heartedly agreeded, for the mansion with its superb decor and fabulous art treasures need no elaboration or adornment.
		The "Twin Vanderbilt Mansions" as they were known in the era when trade was far from the neighborhood, were regarded by some of the older residents as the outstanding Fifth Avenue residences of the time.
		Vanderbilt whose fame as a hostess was known over two continents for a half a century, was one of the last remaining links between the regal pre-World War I American Society with a capital "S" and the larger, more Democratic post World War II society.
	www.sedonalegendhelenfrye.com /page93.html (1994 words)

	The Preservation Society of Newport County - Online Ticket Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vanderbilt was the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who established the family's fortune in steamships and the New York Central Railroad.
		Alva Vanderbilt was a leading hostess in Newport society, and envisioned Marble House as her "temple to the arts" in America.
		The Vanderbilts had 3 children: Consuelo, who became the 9th Duchess of Marlborough; William K., Jr., a prominent figure in pioneering the sport of auto racing in America; and Harold, one of the finest yachtsmen of his era who successfully defended the America's Cup three times.
	tickets.newportmansions.org /mansion.aspx?id=1004 (580 words)

	History - History Of Belcourt Castle - Alva Erskine Smith
		Her brother in law, Cornelius was slated to inherit the entire Vanderbilt fortune, according to the eldest son tradition of the era.
		She taught the Vanderbilt family how to spend their fortune by building mansions and palaces to live in the style of European royalty, which they could well afford.
		Vanderbilt negotiated tirelessly to arrange the best alliance by lavish entertaining, grand balls and parties, tea dances and small private dinner parties ending late in 1895 with the marriage ceremonies and celebrations in New York, Newport and London celebrating the union of Consuelo to the 23-year old Ninth Duke of Marlborough.
	www.belcourtcastle.com /history/alva_smith.html (642 words)

	BookThink - The Library At Biltmore - A Brief History
		Vanderbilt was a patron of the arts and commissioned paintings by John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler among others.
		Vanderbilt was known to entertain guests after dinner by reading aloud a story or a poem.
		Vanderbilt is said to have read eight or ten languages fluently and to have amused himself by translating Sanskrit and Hebrew - an unusual hobby, to say the least.
	www.bookthink.com /0072/72lib1.htm (1049 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 (336 words)

	Vanderbilt Museum
		The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum - a unique combination of mansion, marine and natural history museum, planetarium and park - is dedicated to the education and enjoyment of the people of Long Island and beyond.
		The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum is located in Centerport, New York on William K. Vanderbilt II's spectacular 43-acre, "Gold Coast" estate.
		Vanderbilt's will stipulated that the estate was to be dedicated to the "education and enjoyment of the public" and "enhanced" as a museum.
	www.vanderbiltmuseum.org /home.php (282 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)

	NPS Historical Handbook: Vanderbilt Mansion
		Vanderbilt always came away with his share of prizes for his plants and flowers, and for his garden produce, Belgian horses, and Jersey cattle.
		Vanderbilt was a member of the Hudson River Yacht Club, some of whose members also enjoyed ice yachting on the frozen river.
		Those invited to Vanderbilt Mansion were accommodated in lavishly appointed guest rooms, all of them furnished in 18th-century French style.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/32/hh32g.htm (1163 words)

	HV/Net - Hudson Valley Network
		Except for some of the owners belongings, the mansion and its contents remain unchanged from the time the Vanderbilts lived here, as if their country retreat were ready for a weekend visit.
		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.
		The interiors of the Vanderbilt Mansion present a study of the dramatic change in interior design that occurred in the late 19th century.
	www.hvnet.com /houses/vanderbilt/index.htm (2027 words)

	Harold Stirling Vanderbilt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Oakdale, New York, the third child and second son of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith, to family and friends he was known by the nickname "Mike." He was a brother to William Kissam Vanderbilt II and Consuelo Vanderbilt.
		Born to great wealth, he was raised in Vanderbilt mansions, traveled to Europe frequently, and sailed around the world on yachts owned by his father.
		Vanderbilt was also a card game enthusiast who, in 1925, invented the scoring system by which the game of contract bridge drove auction bridge into utter oblivion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Vanderbilt (981 words)

	Drivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vanderbilt was educated by tutors and at private schools and sent to study at Harvard University but dropped out after the first year.
		Vanderbilt and his wife Virginia had a son, William Kissam Vanderbilt III and daughters Muriel and Consuelo, the latter named for her aunt.
		Willie Kissam Vanderbilt II died in early 1944 of a heart ailment and was interred in the family mausoleum at the Moravian Cemetery on Staten Island, New York.
	www.historicracing.com /drivers.cfm?driverID=1992&AlphaIndex=V (1068 words)

	The Preservation Society of Newport County - Online Ticket Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.
		Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) established the family fortune in steamships and later in the New York Central Railroad, which was a pivotal development in the industrial growth of the nation during the late 19th century.
		The Commodore's grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became Chairman and President of the New York Central Railroad system in 1885, and purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport during that same year.
	tickets.newportmansions.org /mansion.aspx?id=1000 (459 words)

	sedona legend helen frye
		Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., member of a wealthy and prominent New York family, and a well-known journalist and former publisher, and Miss Helen Varner of Clarksburg, W VA., were married by a justice of peace at the Bernalillo County Court House in Albuquerque this afternoon.
		Vanderbilt, who is a resident of Nevada and formerly lived on a ranch forty miles north of Reno, has been on a lecture tour of the country, speaking on his experiences in Europe before the outbreak of the war.
		Vanderbilt was represented in court by counsel, but nothing was offered in her behalf other than her plea for separate maintenance.
	www.sedonalegendhelenfrye.com /page5.html (7651 words)

	Brian Smith's Homepage
		When George Vanderbilt enlisted the services of Hunt and Olmsted, his one goal was to have a home built “which honored the idea of the connoisseur-historian” (Howard 126).
		George Vanderbilt “had intended building a small brown-shingled shooting box in the Blue Ridge Mountains; but Hunt was a spellbinder, with the result that George ended up with a French Renaissance chateau almost eight hundred feet in length” (Gil 134).
		The mansion once owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt is now “the major attraction among the architectural treasures gathered up and kept in apple-pie order by the society” (Brendan 143).
	plaza.ufl.edu /bjsmith/hunt.html (3535 words)

	Mansions
		This tour shows visitors what life was like in a great mansion from the point of view of the staff who worked behind the scenes to keep it running as if by magic.
		The grandest of the Newport summer cottages with 70 rooms, this National Historic Landmark was built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1895.
		The mansion was built in 1887 and was the site of the wedding reception of daughter Jacqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy in 1953.
	www.newportri.com /pages/mansions.html (892 words)

	Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site - Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
		Vanderbilt Mansion NHS, in terms of architecture, interiors, mechanical systems, road systems and landscape, is a remarkably complete example of a gilded-age country place, illustrating the political, economic, social, cultural, and demographic changes that occurred as America industrialized in the years after the Civil War.
		The Frederick W. Vanderbilt Garden Association was formed in 1984 with a mission to restore the Italian Gardens as closely as possible to their appearance in the 1930s.
		The Vanderbilt Mansion was the first home in the Town of Hyde Park to have electricity.
	www.nps.gov /vama (299 words)

	Vanderbilt Mansions by art historian Dr. Lori
		Richard Morris Hunt and the Mansions of the Vanderbilts.
		These three mansions, 5th Avenue's Hunting Lodge, the Marble House, and the Breakers are discussed in greater detail here.
		With the vision of Hunt, the Vanderbilts seeked grandeur and classicism in the home for Cornelius Vanderbilt II which was built in Newport, RI from 1892 until 1895.
	www.drloriv.com /lectures/hunt.asp (733 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Three Newport Mansions of the Gilded Age
		Distribute the Characteristics of a Gilded Age Mansion handout.
		Each student in the group may choose to become an expert in one specific area of the mansions such as the ground, exterior, first floor etc. Walk around to each group, offering suggestions and feedback about how to conduct their research and construct their presentation.
		Vanderbilt, A.T. Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2386 (752 words)

	Newport Mansions, Rhode Island
		Newport boasts mansions of two types these days: those that are museums open to the public, and those that are still private summer residences and are emphatically not open to the public.
		When visiting the mansions, remember these two rules of thumb: first, figure on at least an hour per house to take it all in; second, don't try to see more than three or four houses in one day unless you have a tremendous capacity for absorbing glitter and magnificence.
		Among the best times of year to visit the mansions is December, when admission lines are short or non-existant, and the mansions are decorated for Christmas, with special musical and other programs.
	www.newenglandtravelplanner.com /go/ri/newport/sights/mansions.html (321 words)

	Newport Rhode Island Mansions
		It was the most palatial residence in Newport from its completion in 1852 until the appearance of the Vanderbilt houses in the 1890s.
		But Marble House was much 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.
		Alva E. Smith was educated in France and married the second son of William H. Vanderbilt and had three children before she divorced Vanderbilt to marry Oliver Belmont in 1895.
	www.marshallslocuminn.com /mansions.htm (1076 words)

	Visit the AMAZING Mansions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vanderbilt married Oliver Belmont and moved to the Belcourt mansion.
		People might think the Breakers is just another mansion, but they would not know that it was the symbol of the Vanderbilt family who owned Marble House, like I said before.
		So now that you know about the most popular mansions, you should visit at least one of them, maybe take some pictures, but don't correct the tour guides, (it would be funny though) because you would probably know more than them.
	www.ri.net /middletown/aquidneck/teachers/dunna/mansions (411 words)

	Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: A Very Vanderbilt Christmas
		Entering the mansion, we were giving an audio guide, a small digital recorder with a room-by-room guide to the mansion.
		Perhaps the most famous mansion in America and the most visited tourist attraction in Rhode Island, The Breakers is the grand dame of Newport mansions.
		Vanderbilt and her daughter quite dramatically, particularly since it made it apparent that the daughter resented the mother's controlling nature.
	www.andycarvin.com /archives/2004/12/a_very_vanderbi.html (985 words)

	BookThink - Denizens of Biltmore
		George Washington Vanderbilt was the youngest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt's primary heir.
		Known as shy and bookish, Vanderbilt was credited with speaking eight languages and accumulating a large library.
		A long career building other Vanderbilt mansions and even their mausoleum made Hunt, at age 62, the most likely architect for George's country house.
	www.bookthink.com /0072/72cast.htm (1185 words)

	Amazon.com: Fortune's Children: Books: Arthur T. Vanderbilt 2nd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In this family history, Vanderbilt dramatizes both the successes and excesses of America's Gilded Age--the enormous new wealth, the lavish lifestyles, and, later, the desperate schemes to maintain social status and fortune (contesting wills, matchmaking with nobility, and, most notably, battling for custody of "Little Gloria").
		Vanderbilt has done extensive research to document the lives and ambitions of this larger than life, very conflicted family.
		Arthur Vanderbilt truthfully portrays the great business acumen of the early generations of Vanderbilts, as well as the mistakes, gaffes, and scandals of the later ones.
	www.amazon.com /Fortunes-Children-Arthur-Vanderbilt-2nd/dp/0688103863 (1637 words)

	Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site--Setting the Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, at one time the richest man in America, founded the Vanderbilt family dynasty, which came to influence business, culture, architecture, and society in ways that still affect us today.
		Today, several homes built by the Vanderbilts are open to the public and serve as a window into the lifestyle of the privileged few during the Gilded Age.
		At the time of its completion in 1898, it was considered the most palatial of more than 200 mansions along the Hudson River between New York City and Albany.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/78vanderbilt/78setting.htm (262 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Sutton Place
		Rejecting the brash opulence of the Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, the second Mrs.
		Vanderbilt's entrance on 57th Street and Miss Morgan's on Sutton Place--shared a common garden.
		William K. Vanderbilt was induced to sell her mansion on Fifth Avenue and move to 1 Sutton Place at 57th Street (now owned by the H.J. Heinz family).
	www.nyc-architecture.com /MID/MID007.htm (1737 words)

	The American Experience \| Andrew Carnegie \| Gallery: Vanderbilt Chateau
		Alva Vanderbilt, the wife of Commodore Vanderbilt's son William, was determined to change that.
		She commissioned a mansion so grand that the bluebloods would have no choice but to accept her.
		The Vanderbilt chateau at 52nd Street, designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt, represents the first influential grafting of European history on unseasoned American wealth.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carnegie/gallery/vanderbiltman.html (132 words)

	William Kissam Vanderbilt II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Kissam Vanderbilt II (March 2, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was a motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family.
		Born in New York City, the second child and first son of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith, he was known by the nickname "Willie K" and until his father died was labeled as Vanderbilt Jr.
		In 1904, Willie K Vanderbilt set a new Land Speed Record of 92.30mph in a Mercedes at the Daytona Beach Road Course at Ormond Beach, Florida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Kissam_Vanderbilt_II (1169 words)

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