Cornelius Vanderbilt

There are affordable homes and plenty of things to do in the picturesque Dutchess County town. What’s missing: a town center and wastewater management.

A fixture in Saratoga and Lexington, she was a prominent hostess, a patron of the arts and, not least, a sportswoman and a thoroughbred breeder.

Trying to reinvent herself as a model, Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, a descendant of the railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, spent weeks training how to move in a pair of high-end heels.

A new visitor center at the Breakers mansion in Newport, R.I., cleared a near final hurdle on Monday when the zoning authorities there gave their approval to the plan.

In Newport, R.I., visitors can tour storied mansions decorated for Christmas.

The Vanderbilts tried to keep their section of Fifth Avenue residential, but commercial interests won out.

The group that runs the Breakers, the Vanderbilt “cottage” in Newport, R.I., wants to build a visitors center on the grounds, a proposal that has provoked outrage from neighbors.

“The Men Who Built America,” on History, brings modern-day relevance to the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford.

Cornelius Vanderbilt fought covering a two-mile-long rail tunnel under Park Avenue.

A biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the quintessential “robber baron,” a man widely revered as well as hated.