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The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age : architectural aspirations, 1879-1901

Title
The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age : architectural aspirations, 1879-1901 / John Foreman and Robbe Pierce Stimson ; introduction by Louis Auchincloss.
Author
Foreman, John, 1945-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.

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Additional Authors
Stimson, Robbe Pierce.
Description
viii, 340 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
Subject
  • Vanderbilt family
  • Vanderbilt family
  • Vanderbilt Familie
  • 1800-1918
  • Mansions > United States
  • Eclecticism in architecture > United States
  • Architecture > United States > History > 19th century
  • Architecture
  • Eclecticism in architecture
  • Manners and customs
  • Mansions
  • Haus
  • Geschichte (1879-1901)
  • United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Family histories
  • History
  • Family histories.
  • Histoires familiales.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-329) and index.
Contents
The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age -- 660 Fifth Avenue -- 1 West Fifty-seventh Street -- Shelburne Farms -- Florham -- Elm Court -- Woodlea -- Idle Hour -- Hyde Park -- Marble House -- The Breakers -- Rough Point -- Biltmore -- 640 Fifth Avenue.
ISBN
  • 0312059841
  • 9780312059842
LCCN
90027083
OCLC
  • ocm22957281
  • 22957281
  • SCSB-1957988
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library