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Completed in 1895, the Breakers is now a museum that preserves the extravagant wealthy lifestyle of a millionaire family in the Gilded Age. The Breakers is in Newport, Rhode Island.
Vanderbilt inherited a trust fund that was worth $5 million in 1925 (roughly $70 million today) after her father's death, and according to celebritynetworth.com, was worth $200 million at the time ...
Gloria Vanderbilt was left a very rich girl at the age of eighteen months when her father died. When Gloria was ten, her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt , contested the child's custody with little Gloria's aunt, launching one of the most notorious court cases of the last century.
While many Vanderbilt family members had joined the Episcopal Church, [9] [10] [11] Cornelius Vanderbilt remained a member of the Moravian Church to his death. [12] [13] The Vanderbilt family lived on Staten Island until the mid-1800s, when the Commodore built a house on Washington Place (in what is now Greenwich Village).
She was Vanderbilt's second wife. [5] The private ceremony was attended by a friend of the bride and Colonel Sol Rosenblatt, the groom's attorney. [1] The Vanderbilts had two children, Heidi Murray Vanderbilt and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III. [2] [6] They announced their separation in January 1956 and divorced later that year. [2] [7]
Now a National Historic Landmark, visiting the Breakers is rated as one of top three things to do in Newport and is seen as a tangible symbol of the Vanderbilt family's wealth and social superiority.
It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family. The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 138,300 square feet (12,850 m 2 ) and 62,482 square feet (5,804.8 m 2 ) of living area on five floors, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Renaissance Revival style ...
Wealth generates its own level of fascination. There are few people in the Western World today who aren't aware of the billionaires Buffett, Gates and Musk, but back in the day, the same could be ...