An unlikely name came up during the dispute over Cornelius Vanderbilt's will, that of Lower East Side fortune teller Madame Morrow! New dates are available for our popular Fifth Ave Gilded Age ...
Commissioned by Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, the son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and the grandfather of modern-day media figure Anderson Cooper, the estate was designed to reflect the family’s ...
Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or ...
Vanderbilt, one of the richest private colleges in the nation, with an endowment of $9.7 billion, has deep ties to New York City. Its founder, Cornelius Vanderbilt, made his fortune in the city as ...
The city's presence in New York makes sense in more ways than one: the university was actually founded by New York City magnet Cornelius Vanderbilt, who saw potential in creating a school in the ...