Vanderbilt houses

Antoine Bonin | 🏛️ A summer house for the Vanderbilts ✨ It’s a vacation home that only royalty could have built. However, the Vanderbilts, one of the… | Instagram

Antoine Bonin | 🏛️ A summer house for the Vanderbilts ✨ It’s a vacation home that only royalty could have built. However, the Vanderbilts, one of the… | Instagram

Edith Vanderbilt Townhouse

Built between 1889 and 1895, this grand and massive Chateauesque-style mansion was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for George Washington Vanderbilt II and his wife, Edith Vanderbilt, whom had decided that Asheville would be an ideal place to build a French-style self-sufficient country estate. The house is the largest private residence in the United States, with a 178,926 square foot (16,622.8 square meter) interior floor space. The house was named for De Bilt, the place where the Vanderbilt…

William Vanderbilt built Marble House as a 39th birthday present for his wife Alva Vanderbil.

Built between 1889 and 1895, this grand and massive Chateauesque-style mansion was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for George Washington Vanderbilt II and his wife, Edith Vanderbilt, whom had decided that Asheville would be an ideal place to build a French-style self-sufficient country estate. The house is the largest private residence in the United States, with a 178,926 square foot (16,622.8 square meter) interior floor space. The house was named for De Bilt, the place where the Vanderbilt…

***Photos and text from Mr. Vanderbilt's House and Collection, described by Edward Strahan pseudo Earl Shinn - the Holland Edition pub...