Eagle's Nest was built for William K. Vanderbilt II between 1910 and 1936, and is now home to a museum, planetarium, hiking ...

Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

T. J. Stiles wrote, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. According to Stiles, Vanderbilt s life serves as a ...

There is no comparable business person in today's world because no one dominates the economy the way Vanderbilt did, Stiles said. Vanderbilt's estate was valued at $100 million when he died in 1877.

Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On this day 133 years ago, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the world’s richest man, died. Where The ...

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Anderson Cooper on money, history and the dark side of great fortunes. The CNN anchor confronted his own ancestors in ‘Vanderbilt.’ Now he’s tackling another American dynasty: the Astors.

A proposed business school campus operated by Vanderbilt University in West Palm Beach has drawn wide local acclaim as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to buttress the city and county’s ...