The Vanderbilt Mansion, built by one of America’s wealthiest families and designed by a renowned architect, was explicitly created to reflect the aristocratic way of life. Hyde Park has long served as a seasonal home and was just one of many properties owned by the Vanderbilts, including locations in New York City, Bar Harbor, Newport, and the Adirondacks.
The house was designed for Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt by McKim, Mead, & White, standing as a significant example of American architecture. While smaller than Vanderbilt’s siblings’ grand estates, the Hyde Park interiors are richly decorated with exotic wood paneling, imported marble, luxurious velvets, French tapestries, and antique building materials salvaged from Europe’s great houses, which was a common practice.
Construction began in 1895 and was completed in 1898. The estate has fifty-four rooms across four floors, and at its height, eighteen servants worked there. The Vanderbilt Mansion estate covers 200 acres along the Hudson River, offering scenic views of the river and the distant Catskill Mountains.
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