Linked with wealth and power since the 1860s, the Vanderbilts have often been regarded as America's "royal family". Here are 25 of their spectacular houses built during the country's Gilded Age, the height of Vanderbilt preeminence. The dwellings include Fifth Avenue townhouses, luxurious Newport summer palaces, and vast Adirondack mountain retreats. Illustrated.
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Linked with wealth and power since the 1860s, the Vanderbilts have often been regarded as America's "royal family". Here are 25 of their spectacular houses built during the country's Gilded Age, the height of Vanderbilt preeminence. The dwellings include Fifth Avenue townhouses, luxurious Newport summer palaces, and vast Adirondack mountain retreats. Illustrated.
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Add this copy of The Vanderbilt Homes to cart. $39.90, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Rizzoli.
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Very Good. DJ has general wear. Bookblock has age toning. Rust color stamped cloth, xiii + 194 pp., many BW & color illus. "Linked to wealth, power, and opulent, gossip-worthy living since the 1860s, the Vanderbilts have often been regarded as America's 'royal family. ' Nowhere is this more evident than in the houses they built for themselves during the country's Gilded Age, the height of Vanderbilt preeeminence. [This book] features twenty-four of the most spectacular of these residences--Fifth Avenue townhouses modeled n French chateaus; luxurious summer palaces in Newport, Rhode Island; vast Adirondack mountain retreats that more closely resembled Marie Antoinette's fantasy of bucolic life than they did rustic hideaways; even yachts that were in effect floating mansions...Many were the work of prominent names in architecture such as Richard Morris Hunt and the firm of Warren & Wetmore (who designed Grand Central Terminal in New York City. ) Exclusive new color photography provides never-before-seen views from within existing houses; abundant archival photographs create a compelling historical record of the many homes that are no longer extant or that have been drastically altered." (dj) Chronicles the people who lived in them, too.
Add this copy of The Vanderbilt Homes (First Edition, 1989) to cart. $115.50, good condition, Sold by True Oak Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Highland, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Rizzoli.
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