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

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 ...

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Julian Fellowes, the creator behind HBO’s The Gilded Age, has taken plenty of cues from real history for the characters of ...

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

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

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 ...

NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 21.—William Vanderbilt Kissam, a relative of William K. Vanderbilt, was found dead at 6 o'clock this morning in a chair at the Planters' Hotel, a cheap lodging house at 75 ...

The Vanderbilt Ball Was Worth A Pretty Penny Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images To secure their place in high New York society, William Kissam’s wife, Alva, hosted the Vanderbilt Ball ...

William Kissam Vanderbilt, II put up a healthy prize for the winner, and cast a two and a half foot tall silver cup that everyone wanted to win. It was packed with all the pomp and circumstance of ...

Alva Erskine Smith did it in 1875 by marrying William Kissam Vanderbilt, who was vastly expanding his father’s fortune. Arabella’s unforgivable early offense was not financial but sexual.

In 1904, William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878 - 1944) became one of the foundational figures in American motorsports when he launched the Vanderbilt Cup, the first major trophy in U.S. racing. A lasting ...