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Gloria Vanderbilt's family is one of the most storied—and wealthiest—in America.

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” -- The Rich Boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald. And nowhere was the disparity between the

The mansion was built as a summer "cottage" between 1888 and 1892 for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt. It was a social landmark that helped spark the transformation of Newport from a relatively relaxed summer colony of wooden houses to the now-legendary resort of opulent stone palaces. The fifty-room mansion required a staff of 36 servants, including butlers, maids, coachmen, and footmen. The mansion cost $11 million (equivalent to $313 million in 2019); $660 million in Gold-dollar…

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"Marble House, a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892. Its temple-front portico resembles that of the White House. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was designated a National…

A special holiday treat I like to give myself is a stroll through Marble House in early December; it truly puts me in a festive mood. With 500,000 cubic feet…

Visiting the lavish Newport Mansions (or "summer cottages") in Newport, Rhode Island offers an opulent peek into the "Gilded Age" of American history.

This will be hard to believe, but back during the Gilded Age, this astonishingly beautiful mansion in Newport, Rhode Island was once the summer home of coal baron Mr. Edward Julius Berwind and his …

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