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Hace 4 días · The Breakers was built in 1895 by Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice, who is frequently referred to as “Alice of the Breakers.”
Hace 4 días · The home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II was allegedly the largest single-family house in New York City at the time. Feeling that others were trying to outdo his house, the Cornelius...
Hace 1 día · The William H. Vanderbilt House, commonly known as the Vanderbilt Triple Palace, was an elaborate mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue between 51st Street and 52nd Street. The mansion was perhaps the...
Hace 1 día · "Othello and Desdemona in Venice" by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856). Othello (/ ɒ ˈ θ ɛ l oʊ /; full title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, around 1603.The story revolves around two characters, Othello and Iago. Othello is a Moorish military commander who was serving as a general of the Venetian army in defence of Cyprus against ...
Hace 1 día · The first room, which was originally designed for Cornelius Vanderbilt III, will be showcased as it had been in 1845, while his brother’s rooms down the hall will be recontextualized to different points in The Breaker’s history as the Vanderbilts lived through the 20th century and into the 21st century and how their lifestyles changed in turn.
Hace 1 día · NEWPORT — The Breakers' third floor, which had been used as a summer residence for members of the Vanderbilt family as recently as 2018, is about to open to the public for the first time in the mansion’s 129-year history. “Our interest is to try and tell as full a story of the Vanderbilt family and of this building [as possible], and so you can’t do it with just the first and second ...
Hace 5 días · For example, once America’s second wealthiest family, the Vanderbilts built their fortune through a shipping and railroad empire, with their patriarch Cornelius at the helm.
