Versailles Revisited - New England Home Magazine
It was a time of horse racing and baronesses, of high society and industry, of grand philanthropic projects and lavish parties. This was the Gilded Age at its height, late nineteenth-century America. And if royalty was measured in gold and silver, the kings and queens of them all may have been the Vanderbilts. In 1888, William Kissam Vanderbilt threw his energy—and his money—into building “the very best living accommodations that money could buy” on the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Famed arch
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