12 Facts About Vanderbilt family

Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age.

Cornelius Vanderbilt family's descendants went on to build grand mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York City; luxurious "summer cottages" in Newport, Rhode Island; the palatial Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina; and various other opulent homes.

The Vanderbilts' prominence lasted until the mid-20th century, when the family's 10 great Fifth Avenue mansions were torn down, and most other Vanderbilt houses were sold or turned into museums in what has been referred to as the "Fall of the House of Vanderbilt".

The Vanderbilt family is associated with the Dutch patrician Van der Bilt.

Vanderbilt family was the fourth of nine children born into a Staten Island family of modest means.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt family left school at age 11 and went on to build a shipping and railroad empire that, during the 19th century, would make him one of the wealthiest men in the world.

Vanderbilt family lived on Staten Island until the mid-1800s, when the Commodore built a house on Washington Place .

Shortly before his death in 1877, Vanderbilt family donated US$1 million for the establishment of Vanderbilt family University in Nashville.

Vanderbilt family built the first of what would become many grand Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, at 640 Fifth Avenue.

Vanderbilt family built a home on Fifth Avenue and would become one of the great architectural patrons of the Gilded Age, hiring the architects for Grand Central Terminal.

Vanderbilt family built Marble House at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.

In 1855, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt family donated 45 acres of property to the Moravian Church and Cemetery at New Dorp on Staten Island, New York.