From the late 1870s to the 1920s the Vanderbilt clan employed America's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces in the United States. Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now National Historic Landmarks.
The list of architects employed by the Vanderbilts is a "who's who" of the New York-based firms that embodied the syncretic (often dismissed as "eclectic") styles of the American Renaissance: Richard Morris Hunt, George B. Post, McKim, Mead and White, Carrere and Hastings, Warren and Wetmore, Horace Trumbauer John Russell Pope, Addison Mizner were all employed by the descendants of 'Commodore' Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built only very modestly himself.
Some Vanderbilt houses
- William Kissam Vanderbilt, "Marble House", Newport, Rhode Island, built 1888-1892; Richard Morris Hunt (website (http://www.newportmansions.org))
- Florence Vanderbilt (Mrs. Hamilton Twombly) (1854-1952), "Florham", Convent Station, New Jersey, 1894-1897; McKim, Mead and White (now Administration Building, Fairleigh Dickinson University) (website (http://ww.fdu.edu/visitorcenter/florham.html))
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