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Idle Hour is a former Vanderbilt estate that is located in Oakdale on Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. It was completed in 1901 for William Kissam Vanderbilt . Once part of Dowling College , the mansion is one of the largest houses in the United States .
A new "Idle Hour", designed by Hunt's son Richard Howland Hunt, was built on the same property from 1900–01 of brick and marble in the English Country Style and is now part of the former Dowling College campus. [2] Marble House, Newport, RI "Marble House" summer home in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1888 to 1892. [3]
In 1882, William Kissam Vanderbilt built the most noted one, Idle Hour, 900-acre (3.6 km 2) on the Connetquot River. The lavish, wooden 110-room home was destroyed by fire on April 15, 1899, while his son, Willie K. II, was honeymooning there. Willie and his new wife escaped.
Idle Hour: Oakdale, New York: William K. Vanderbilt: Mercury International: 1901: English Country Style: Richard Howland Hunt: 17 (tie) 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m 2) [27] Woodlea: Briarcliff Manor, New York: Elliott Fitch Shepard: Sleepy Hollow Country Club: 1895: Italian Renaissance Revival: McKim, Mead & White: 17 (tie) 70,000 sq ft (6,500 m 2 ...
The William K. Vanderbilt House or the Petit Chateau in 1886, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of architecture of the United States.
Marble House was Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present. She later became a leader in the women's suffrage movement. See inside Marble House, a 50-room Gilded Age mansion that a Vanderbilt heir ...
William Kissam Vanderbilt I was born on December 12, 1849, in New Dorp, New York, on Staten Island.His parents were Maria Louisa Kissam and William Henry Vanderbilt, the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family who was the richest American after he took over his father's fortune in 1877 until his own death in 1885.
Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, ... Idle Hour in 1894. The house burned in 1899.