Vanderbilt mansions

The Vanderbilts were once the richest family on the planet, but their decline was rapid. Here's how the Vanderbilt family lost their entire fortune.

A Gilded Age mansion that was the childhood home of the late heiress/fashion designer, mother of CNN’s Anderson Cooper, has sold for $32.2 million, The Post can report exclusively.

Gloria Vanderbilt's family is one of the most storied—and wealthiest—in America.

Visit the glamorous and gilded "summer cottage" of the Vanderbilt family in Newport, Rhode Island: The Breakers.

For much of the Gilded Age, the spacious and tidy residential blocks on Fifth Avenue between 50th Street and Central Park South were New York City’s millionaire mile. The members of one supre…

New Port, Rhode Island Some of the mansions are open for tours....and they are unbelievable

In the early 1890's millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt II commissioned a block long renovation to his already large New York City mansion that changed the world's view of the Vanderbilt's forever. In 1883 Vanderbilt had had a large townhouse built on the corner of 57th street that could suit him and his large family comfortably. But by the 1890's he felt that others were trying to trying to outdo him and his family, so he commissioned society architect George Post to build him a block long…

The William H. Vanderbilt House, known as the Vanderbilt Triple Palace, was a mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets.

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

The Gilded Age took cues from Alva Vanderbilt’s 1883 ball, which “was the most extravagant affair of its kind America had ever seen.”