Cornelius Vanderbilt ordered the construction of new infrastructure, including the original Grand Central Depot (then the largest railroad station in the United States), a massive freight depot at ...

Rosecliff features the largest private ballroom in Newport, measuring 40 feet by 80 feet. Scenes from "The Great Gatsby," "27 ...

HBO's "The Gilded Age" films scenes in real historic mansions from the time period. Several mansions once owned by the ...

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

Cooper’s decision to ditch his longtime talent agency is seen as a sign that he anticipates a tough negotiation process to ...

The Russells and van Rhijns might not be in residence, but these historic homes are still fascinating—and you won’t have to ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife, Alice, built an even more ostentatious mansion on 57th Street in New York for about $3.375 million, the equivalent of more than $110 million today.

From Newport cottages to Manhattan palaces, explore how the Vanderbilts built America's most extravagant homes and reshaped ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt ordered the construction of new infrastructure, including the original Grand Central Depot (then the largest railroad station in the United States), a massive freight depot at ...

In 1875, at 22 years old, she married William Kissam Vanderbilt, grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius ‘Commodore’ Vanderbilt. As evidence of the family’s vast wealth, when Cornelius died in 1877, ...

Explore legendary opulence and architectural grandeur in the lavish mansions built by America's steel and railroad tycoons of ...