From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

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.

It was built by Gilded Age railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt — grandfather of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who gifted Yale the funds to build the namesake Vanderbilt Hall on Old Campus to honor his ...

NEWPORT, RI — The Preservation Society of ... historic landmarks built during the Gilded Age by members of the Vanderbilt family — will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, with last entry at ...

Denver Broncos cornerback Patrick Surtain II is the 101 Awards' 2024 AFC Defensive ... following Buffalo Bills linebacker Cornelius Bennett in 1988 and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Derrick ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI ... Both mansions are National Historic Landmarks that were built by members of the Vanderbilt family. The mansions will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., but the last ...

Nashville native William Ridley Wills II wrote nearly a book a year for the ... The local historian, philanthropist and Vanderbilt University Board of Trust member died on Jan. 16 in his home ...