New York City's Fifth Avenue was once home to "Millionaires' Row," where the wealthiest business tycoons of the Gilded Age ...

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 – now a staple of American industrialization and wealth – was once a man with hardly anything to his name. He pursued the American dream at the opening of American ...

The palatial Cornelius Vanderbilt II House on Fifth Avenue survived less than 50 years. By 1927, the crown jewel of an American royal family was rubble—and today it’s Bergdorf’s.

Consuelo Vanderbilt is seven generations away from the famed industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt — whose name is on Grand Central Terminal. Tamara Beckwith. As for Cooper’s mother, ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt died in January 1877. Six months later, the greatest social insurrection of the nineteenth century paralyzed the operations of Vanderbilt’s New York Central Railroad (by ...

A new exhibition at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will explore the rise of high finance and its societal ...

Anderson Cooper grew up in the shadow of great wealth: His great-great-great-grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest men in American history. His mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was at ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt — an eighth-generation descendant of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt — is single, having legally separated from her husband of 15 years, Rafael Feldman, we hear.

VANDERBILT; Cornelius Vanderbilt's Wife Asked to Entertain Prince Henry. The German Sovereign Desirous that a Representative American Family Should Personally Show Honor to His Brother.