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  2. Marble House - Wikipedia

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    Marble House, a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892.

  3. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    Cornelius Vanderbilt II House: 1883: Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt George B. Post: New York City: Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Alice Vanderbilt. Demolished in 1926 [75]: 25 more images: Florence and Eliza Vanderbilt House: 1883: Châteauesque: John B. Snook: New York City: Built for Florence Vanderbilt and Eliza Vanderbilt. Were ...

  4. The Breakers - Wikipedia

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    The gate at The Breakers. Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased the grounds in 1885 for $450,000 (equivalent to $15.3 million in 2023). [4] The previous mansion on the property was owned by Pierre Lorillard IV; it burned on November 25, 1892, and Vanderbilt commissioned famed architect Richard Morris Hunt to rebuild it in splendor.

  5. The Breakers (1878) - Wikipedia

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    The property acquired for $200,000, also from the estate of Gov. Lawrence, [13] featured a Romanesque Revival style exterior consisting of red sandstone with Aesthetic Movement style elements. [14] After her death in 1896, the estate was also sold to a Vanderbilt descendant, Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly and her husband, Hamilton McKown ...

  6. Dungeness (Cumberland Island, Georgia) - Wikipedia

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    Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.

  7. 647 Fifth Avenue - Wikipedia

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    The residences were designed as a double house with identical architectural features. Vanderbilt sold the southern house, number 645, for $500,000 in July 1904. [43] The buyers were George's sister Emily and her husband William Douglas Sloane. [20] [1] By April 1905, number 645 was already occupied and number 647 was nearly finished. [44]

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