Biltmore house

The Breakers, Newport, RI

Marble House Newport, RI

From the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed America's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces in the United States. Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now National Historic Landmarks. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1039x360, 378 KB) Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina, USA File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Vanderbilt houses Biltmore Estate User:Porsche997SBS/Images Metadata This file contains additional... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1039x360, 378 KB) Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina, USA File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Vanderbilt houses Biltmore Estate User:Porsche997SBS/Images Metadata This file contains additional... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 2450 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Vanderbilt houses Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 2450 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Vanderbilt houses Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 3210 KB) Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 3210 KB) Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island. ... // Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The Vanderbilts are a prominent family in the history of the United States. ... Beaux Arts was an architectural style that was popular in the early twentieth century. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Leinster House Henrietta Street Historically in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in some other countries, a townhouse (or a house in town) was a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city. ... The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ... USS Constitution. ...

The list of architects employed by the Vanderbilts is a "who's who" of the New York-based firms that embodied the syncretic (often dismissed as "eclectic") styles of the American Renaissance: Richard Morris Hunt, George B. Post, McKim, Mead and White, Carrere and Hastings, Warren and Wetmore, Horace Trumbauer John Russell Pope, Addison Mizner were all employed by the descendants of 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built only very modestly himself. Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. ... For the white nationalist magazine, see American Renaissance (magazine). ... Statue of Liberty, Pedestal by Richard Morris Hunt Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827, Brattleboro, Vermont - 1895) preeminent figure in the history of American architecture. ... George Browne Post (1837 - 1913) was a U.S. architect. ... McKim, Mead, and White was the premier architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. ... Carrere and Hastings, the firm of John Mervin Carrère (November 9, 1858 - March 1, 1911) and Thomas Hastings (1860 - 1929), sited in New York City, was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architectural firms in the United States. ... Warren and Wetmore was an architecture firm in New York City. ... Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 - November 18th,1938) was a prominent architect of the gilded age. ... The Jefferson Memorial, built 1939 — 1943 John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an architect most known for his designs of the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941) in Washington, DC. Pope was born in... Addison Mizner (1872-1933) was a resort architect born in Benicia, California. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt Cornelius Vanderbilt I (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads and was the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. ...

Houses

• Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856-1938) built "Hyde Park" in Hyde Park, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896-99, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. He built Rough Point in Newport, Rhode Island. phttp://www.nps.gov/vama/vamahome.html]

• William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849-1920) built "Idle Hour" in Oakdale, Long Island, New York in 1878-79. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and was destroyed by fire in 1899. He also built a townhouse at 660 Fifth Avenue, New York, which was demolished in 1926.

• William Kissam Vanderbilt built the "Marble House" in Newport, Rhode Island. in 1888-92. It was also designed by Hunt. [1]

• William Kissam Vanderbilt II, built "Eagle’s Nest", in 1910-36, at Centerport, New York. It was designed by Warren & Wetmore. [2]

• George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862-1914), constructed "Biltmore" in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1888-95. Designed by Hunt, it is the largest house in the United States) [3]

• Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899), built "The Breakers" in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1892-95, which was also designed by Hunt [4]

• Florence Vanderbilt (Mrs. Hamilton Twombly) (1854-1952) built "Florham" in Convent Station, New Jersey, in 1894-97. Designed by McKim, Mead and White, it is now the Administration Building at Fairleigh Dickinson University [5]

• Emily Vanderbilt (Wife of William Douglas Sloan) built "Elm Court" in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1887. It is the largest shingle-style house in the United States. The 1919 "Elm Court Talks," held at Elm Court, led to the creation of The League of Nations and The Treaty of Versailles.

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