Cornelius Vanderbilt II's Fifth Avenue residence, which has since been demolished.Museum of the City of New York/Byron Collection/Getty Images During the Gilded Age, wealthy families built extravagant ...
Stroll through the Gilded Age at The Breakers, an architectural masterpiece built for a railroad mogul and his family more than a century ago in seaside Newport, R.I. Between 1893 and 1895, Cornelius ...
I've toured eight Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Hudson Valley, New York. The mansions feature incredible displays of wealth such as walls covered in gold and silver. The homes ...
The Vanderbilts, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families, owned multiple opulent homes. The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 ...