Consuelo Vanderbilt; Daughter of Henry Kissam and Alva.
With this handy cheat sheet, get ready to dazzle your friends the next time somebody asks which Vanderbilt family members had ties to your alma mater.
One forever associates the Vanderbilts with Newport and the opulence they created there. However, many of the family preferred the (relatively) simple pleasures of Bar Harbor, the Maine resort once considered second […]
Quilter, Teacher, Author, Hopeless Scrapaholic! Bonnie K Hunter is the head, heart and hands behind Quiltville.com.
At each year’s end, we look forward to the promises of a New Year with friends and family as we reflect on the past year's events.
Sagamore—it’s a name celebrated in Adirondack history, story, and song, synonymous with a glittering but shortlived era of rapacious wealth and ostentatious luxury. The subject of attention in many books, most recently Gladys Montgomery’s An Elegant Wilderness: Great Camps and Grand Lodges of the Adirondacks, 1855-1935, the place now gets its own deserved volume in…
Rear View: Dollars to dust.
A modernist gem with interiors by Poonam Khanna charts a stunning new path in historic Newport, Rhode Island.
Editor’s note: Gloria Vanderbilt died on June 17, 2019, at the age of 95. Here is a look at her family's famous fortune, and how they largely squandered it. The Vanderbilts' lavish homes, opulent parties and colorful characters made them the Gilded Age's poster family. At one time some of America's [...]
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These are the best wedding dresses from America's wealthiest brides.
A captivating history of the Vanderbilts reveals their impact on American society and culture.
This wedding editorial photographed at The Biltmore Estate follows a visual narrative inspired by George Vanderbilt, his wife Edith, and their daughter Cornelia.
Money can’t buy Alva Smith happiness, but she can use it to buy her way into the top of society in A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN: A NOVEL OF THE VANDERBILTS by Therese Anne Fowler (October 16th 2018 by St. Martin's Press).
Spokane Press (6 Feb 1910) Mrs O. H. P. Belmont Explains How Fifth Avenue Women Have Profited by Studying the Poor Shirtwaist Strikers. Alva Belmont.
Consuelo Vanderbilt | Evening Star, Washington, DC (28 Dec 1937) Col & Mme Jacques Balsan, rarely photographed together, vacationing at Palm Beach, FL.
She's a social icon, a fashion legend, and an artist in her own right. And this week, Gloria Vanderbilt is the subject of an HBO documentary, Nothing Left Unsaidd, which features her in conversation with her son Anderson Cooper, and a new book, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, a memoir co-written with Cooper. Here, a look at the 92-year-old's life in photographs.
Alva Vanderbilt and Richard Morris Hunt's white limestone creation stood in stark contrast to the brownstone homes around it -- p...
We dissect the before and after reel of special effects in the Great Gatsby to show what's historically accurate and not in the recent film.
Alfred Vanderbilt enjoyed playing tennis with me. The reason he enjoyed it is that he was a very bad tennis player, and he sought the company of others of equal ability. I fit the bill. He liked ladies — in every sense of the word, I'm sure — so it was
