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The Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum is a private burial site adjacent to the Moravian Cemetery in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century, when the Vanderbilt family was the wealthiest in America.
Edith Stuyvesant Dresser was born on January 17, 1873, in Newport, Rhode Island, to Major George Warren Dresser (1837–1883) and Susan Fish Le Roy (1834–1883). [2] She was the great-niece of Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), a U.S. Secretary of State , U.S. Senator , and New York Governor .
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. ... Edith Shepard (1872–1954) Margaret Shepard (1873–1895)
ASHEVILLE - Biltmore Estate, coined "America's largest home," has reopened after Tropical Storm Helene closed it for more than a month. George Vanderbilt's Biltmore House was among many Western ...
She was the daughter, and only child, [5] of George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914) and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser (1873–1958). [6] Her father, the youngest child of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa (née Kissam) Vanderbilt, built a 250-room mansion, the largest privately owned home in the United States, which he named Biltmore ...
ASHEVILLE - More than a century after famed entrepreneur George Vanderbilt and his wife, Edith, marked the first Christmas at their then-new Biltmore House, the time-honored tradition has ...
Now a National Historic Landmark, the Breakers is seen as a tangible symbol of the Vanderbilt family's wealth and social superiority. 8 jaw-dropping facts about the famous Breakers mansion in ...
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