Eagle's Nest was built for William K. Vanderbilt II between 1910 and 1936, and is now home to a museum, planetarium, hiking ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt was the best known “dollar princess”—or, American heiresses that English aristocrats married for their ...

WILLIAM V. KISSAM DEAD. Share full article. Nov. 22, 1903. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from November 22, 1903, Page 7 Buy Reprints.

William Kissam Vanderbilt took over but retired soon after to concentrate on his yachts and thoroughbred horses, while brother George Vanderbilt's 146,000 acre Biltmore estate ate into his branch ...

After Alva divorced her husband William Kissam Vanderbilt, she received $10 million but also the contempt of much of Gilded Age society — at least until the marriage. The five-story McKim, Mead ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt, ... Central, which was built during the 19 th and early 20 th century by “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt and his grandson William Kissam Vanderbilt. ...

Why have just one summer cottage when you can have two? William Kissam Vanderbilt owned a grand home just down the road, which John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy visited in the 1950s.

William Kissam Vanderbilt, II put up a healthy prize for the winner, and cast a two and a half foot tall silver cup that ...

The 1.1-acre property sits in the Idle Hour neighborhood, named for its proximity to the former estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt I. Credit: Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty ...

An Upper East Side mansion built around 1930 as the home of the socialite Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt—wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, a member of the prominent New York family—is ...

The 42-acre estate of William Kissam Vanderbilt II, which included his summer "cottage" of Eagle's Nest, is now a museum that's open to the public.