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

There are portraits of William II's family in the entryway. This is his father, William Kissam Vanderbilt. He ran an arena you may have heard of: Madison Square Garden. William K. Vanderbilt.

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

What does a room of one’s own look like in the late 1880s? For The Gilded Age ’s Bertha Russell, played by Carrie Coon, it’s ...

Consuelo was the daughter of Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt, born into a wealthy family dominating the railroad industry, much like Gladys. Her romantic hopes were disrupted by her mother ...

Part of William Kissam Vanderbilt's 900-acre Idle Hour estate, it also included a 16-acre farm whose buildings became homes for "artists in residence, who came out in the 1920s to this beautiful ...

Unlike, say, Bridgerton, The Gilded Age is no fantastical retelling of history. It draws inspiration from real-life people ...

The Gilded Age has decided to raise the stakes in Season 3 — and it’s going to take a toll on the show’s romances. “I see the ...

Consuelo Vanderbilt Left: Getty Images; right: HBO Sweet, meek Gladys Russell (Taissa Farmiga) is a sure stand-in for Consuelo Vanderbilt, the daughter of William Kissam and Alva Vanderbilt.

Ambitious and socially strategic, Alva sought to change that. In 1875, at 22 years old, she married William Kissam Vanderbilt, grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius ‘Commodore’ Vanderbilt. As ...