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