Marble House was completed in 1892 as a summer home for William K. Vanderbilt and Alva Vanderbilt. Built with half a million cubic feet of marble, it features 50 rooms and spans 140,000 square feet.
Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present from her husband was a 140,000-square-foot summer "cottage" on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island. As heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune during the ...
Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present from her husband was a 140,000-square-foot summer "cottage" on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island. As heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune during the Gilded ...
a 50-room Gilded Age mansion that a Vanderbilt heir gifted to his wife for her birthday New reactor could more than triple the yield of one of the world's most valuable chemicals This is one of ...