Gilded Age railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt would be wealthier than Jeff Bezos if he were alive today. His grandson built ...

From mansions to lighthouses, bridges to the Rhode Island State House, Rhode Island is full of iconic structures just begging ...

Rhode Island. As heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune during the Gilded Age, William K. Vanderbilt spared no expense in building Marble House for his wife. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt ...

During the 19th-century Gilded Age, Newport, Rhode Island -- a coastal town ... is the grande dame of all the Newport mansions and was built for the Vanderbilt family at the end of the 19th ...

Vanderbilt, who was born into wealth and the railroad industry, built a 183,300-square-foot mansion for him and his family as ...

which had been used as a summer residence for members of the Vanderbilt family as recently as 2018, is about to open to the public for the first time in the mansion’s 129-year history.