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The Cornelius Vanderbilt II House was a large mansion built in 1883 at 1 West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It occupied the frontage along the west side of Fifth Avenue from West 57th Street up to West 58th Street at Grand Army Plaza. The home was sold in 1926 and demolished to make way for the Bergdorf Goodman Building.
Townhouse, her second, a 70-room house at 1 East 71st Street, New York. Designed by Whitney Warren. Demolished. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938) Hyde Park, Hyde Park, NY "Hyde Park" in Hyde Park, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896–1899, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site.
English: Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion at the corner of 5th Avenue, 57th Street and Grand Army Plaza, New York 1908. Date: 18 February 2014, 21:12:17: Source:
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Cornelius Vanderbilt II was the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest man in America during the Gilded Age, and succeeded him as the president and chairman of the New York Central Railroad ...
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