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16 de oct. de 2016 · For the ultimate experience in art and architecture, visit the nearby Biltmore Estate, home to the private collection of George Washington Vanderbilt II, which holds original works by Pierre ...
Uiterlijk. George Washington Vanderbilt II ( New Dorp, 14 november 1862 – Washington D.C., 6 maart 1914) was een lid van de steenrijke Amerikaanse familie van Nederlandse afkomst Vanderbilt. Hij was actief met stoomboten, spoorwegen en andere ondernemingen. Hij was de vierde zoon en het jongste kind (van de acht kinderen) van William Henry ...
22 de oct. de 2021 · In today’s dollars, construction costs exceeded a billion dollars. From the architecture to the artwork, the chateau invokes the spirit of the French Renaissance. George first welcomed family and friends to the Biltmore Estate on Christmas Eve, 1895. The following year, he built the Cathedral of All Souls right across from the estate’s main ...
George Washington Vanderbilt II envisioned a baronial existence at the Biltmore Estate. Wikimedia. The Biltmore Estate. Besides building a pair of Fifth Avenue mansions known as the Marble Twins, preceded by a townhouse on West 53 rd, and a summer cottage in Bar Harbor, George Washington Vanderbilt II built Biltmore House, which remains the largest house ever built in the United States.
William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil. Born August 17, 1928, William A.V. Cecil was the younger of Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil and the Honorable John Francis Amherst Cecil’s two sons and a grandson of George and Edith Vanderbilt. Educated in England and Switzerland, he enlisted in the British Navy near the end of World War II.
22 de mar. de 2024 · George Washington Vanderbilt was an American collector. He was the son of William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885) and a grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877). G. W. Vanderbilt had a collection of Rembrandt and Whistler etchings, as well as rare tapestries, rugs, bronzes, Japanese prints and books.
