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

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

Julian Fellowes, the creator behind HBO’s The Gilded Age, has taken plenty of cues from real history for the characters of ...

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

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

Built between 1889–1895, it’s the brainchild of George Vanderbilt, grandson of American industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt, a steamship and railroad magnate whose total wealth at the time of ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, built the famous 138,300-square-foot Breakers mansion in Newport in 1895.. Reginald Vanderbilt inherited $10 million ...

Visitors can now tour the historically significant house's third floor, where the Vanderbilts spent their summers.

In his opening statement over the dispute of railroad tycoon “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt’s will, attorney Scott Lord proclaimed that Vanderbilt was “a believer in spiritualism” and ...

That bridge was built by one of the first railroad tycoons, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who became president of the Hudson River Railroad in 1867. Vanderbilt also owned the New York & Harlem ...