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From the late 1870s to the 1920s the Vanderbilt clan employed America's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York Townhouse s and East Coast Palace s in the United States. Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now National Historic Landmark s.

The list of architects employed by the Vanderbilts is a "who's who" of the New York-based firms that embodied the , George B. Post , McKim, Mead And White , Carrere And Hastings , Warren And Wetmore , Horace Trumbauer John Russell Pope , Addison Mizner were all employed by the descendants of 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt , who built only very modestly himself.


Some Vanderbilt houses




  • William Kissam Vanderbilt, " Marble House ", Newport, Rhode Island, built 1888-1892; Richard Morris Hunt ( website )





  • Florence Vanderbilt (Mrs. Hamilton Twombly) (1854-1952), "Florham", Convent Station, New Jersey, 1894-1897; McKim, Mead and White (now Administration Building, Fairleigh Dickinson University) ( website )



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