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

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT'S CONDITION VERY GRAVE; Peritonitis Sets In -- Four Physicians in Consultation. Many Callers at the House, Who Leave Messages and Flowers -- What the Doctors Report.

Cornelius Vanderbilt first consolidated rail lines in the New York region before moving towards Chicago. By the late 1860s, the Vanderbilts accumulated the largest railway system in America and ...

Gertrude Vanderbilt, the great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, passed her Long Island art studio down to the younger generations, who put it on the market. After more than a year, it still ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. By organizing the fragmented transportation system in the United States, Cornelius Vanderbilt facilitated continental ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt was your stereotypical first-generation tycoon — the kind who believes competition isn’t good but something you crush.

Picture this bawdy scene from the life of one of America's leading business buccaneers. In 1815, then in his 20s, Cornelius Vanderbilt spent his days sailing schooners up and down the Hudson River ...

Even in a city filled with over-the-top mansions, The Breakers was like no other. Cornelius Vanderbilt II, president and chairman of the New York Central Railroad, spared no expense when he built ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt II's 70-room mansion gives the UK's Royal Lodge a run for its money. Vanderbilt, who was born into wealth and the railroad industry, built a 183,300-square-foot mansion for ...

The waterfront Rhode Island stable was owned by millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt's son, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, and quickly became the 'most prestigious horse farms in America.' ...

The home on 17 Rippowam Road in Ridgefield, Conn. once beloned to Consuelo Vanderbilt, the great great-grandaughter of shipping tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt.