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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 (1883) at 680 Fifth Avenue, New York. The house was a wedding gift from William H. Vanderbilt to his daughter. Demolished. [4] "NaHaSaNe" (1893), the 115,000 acre Great Camp located on Lake Lila in the Adirondacks. George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), Townhouse (1887) at 9 West 53rd Street in New York City.
The rear facade of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II House on West 57th Street, New York. The Fifth Avenue mansions that Cornelius Vanderbilt II, his brothers, and his sons lived in have been demolished, including Cornelius Vanderbilt II House. His 70-room summer residence, The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, still stands as a memory of his lifestyle.
The mansion overlooking the Hudson River was commissioned by former New York City governor and U.S. congressman William Paulding and sits on 33 acres of land. The Belvedere Estate: Tarrytown, New York
The gate at The Breakers. Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased the grounds in 1885 for $450,000 (equivalent to $15.3 million in 2023). [4] The previous mansion on the property was owned by Pierre Lorillard IV; it burned on November 25, 1892, and Vanderbilt commissioned famed architect Richard Morris Hunt to rebuild it in splendor.
This work of Neo-Italian Renaissance architecture was built between 1893 and 1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island. ... Glenview Mansion, Yonkers, New York.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt II's daughter Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was a sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1855, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt donated 45 acres (18 ha) of property to the Moravian Church and Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.