It was one of several properties owned by Frederic William Vanderbilt, a scion of the prominent Vanderbilt family, and his wife Louise Holmes Anthony, according to the NPS. Vanderbilt Mansion is ...

William Vanderbilt II, who inherited substantial wealth, once shared a reflection on this impact: “My life was never destined to be quite happy. It was laid out along lines which I did not ...

Eventually portions of the park and the farm were bought by Dorthea and Walter’s son Walter Jr. It was in 1895, that Fredrick ...

Conrad Williams Jr. “It never gets stale,” says Ellen Mason, who has spent the past 18 years leading tours of Eagle’s Nest, the Spanish revival mansion built by William Vanderbilt in 1910.

After Cornelius' death in 1937, his son William Vanderbilt took over the businesses and doubled his father's fortune. He died the wealthiest private individual in the world in 1885. William's son ...

The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium in Centerport — which began as a summer home for William K. Vanderbilt II more than a century ago — could see a more complete return to ...