Cornelius Vanderbilt II's 70-room mansion gives the UK's Royal ... foot mansion for him and his family as a summer get away ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. NEWPORT, Nov. 14. -- The annual exhibition of the Newport Horticultural Society, which is made up of ...

After the Breakers were leased to the Newport Preservation Society in 1948 ... From 1897 until his death in 1899, Cornelius Vanderbilt II managed railroads. During the third generation, wealth ...

NEWPORT, May 11 -- Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt returned from New York this afternoon. By a later boat Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt arrived, and is a guest at her son's farm, Oakland, in Portsmouth.

Of all of Newport's famous homes, The Breakers mansion is the cream of the summer cottage crop. Commissioned in 1893 by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers is a Renaissance-style ...

Back in 1896 when auburn-haired Grace Graham Wilson bagged young Cornelius ... York and Newport) society. The importance of the position she had won was fully apparent to Grace Vanderbilt.