Also, “Oakland Farm” (1893), mansion and stables on 150 acres in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Also, “ The Breakers” in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1892–95, which was also designed by Richard Morris Hunt. This mansion was, and remains, the largest private residence ever built in Manhattan. Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899), built a townhouse, the “ Cornelius Vanderbilt II House” (1883) at 1 West 57th Street, New York by George B.Atwood Carrère and Hastings Warren and Wetmore Horace Trumbauer John Russell Pope and Addison Mizner were all employed by the eight grandchildren of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, who built only very modest houses for himself.Ĭommodore’s grandchildren inheritted about $200,000 from their father, and they treated it as play money to indulge their home-building passions I count 24 houses… The list of architects employed by the Vanderbilts is a “who’s who” of the New York-based firms that embodied the “eclectic” styles of the American Renaissance: Richard Morris Hunt George B. Is is just one of many Vanderbilt mansions in America…įrom the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed some of the United States’s best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an un-equalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces. Next we visited the Vanderbilt Estate, also in the city of Hyde Park. In addition to being born here, and living here all his life, FDR is also buried here: The western side is covered in graffiti the east side is blank… There is a moving art installation in the garden: given by Winston Churchill’s grand-daughter, it is a sculpture made from pieces taken from the Berlin Wall. It was built in about 1941, and expanded after his death.

Both Eleanor and FDR built separate, private houses for themselves on the estate, although FDR never slept in his…Īlso on the grounds of the estate is the FDR Library it was the first presidential library built, and it is the only presidential library that was actually used by a sitting president. FDR was a bit of a “Mama’s Boy” and Eleanor and Sara never got along well. To access the upper level, he transferred himself into the dumbwaiter, and he hoisted himself up by using the ropes and pulleys.Īs I said, FDR’s mother, Sara, lived here with FDR and his wife Eleanor. There is a ramp from the main level down to the Living Room, but when visitors were expected, he would transfer from the wheelchair to his desk chair in the Living Room, the ramp was removed and stored, and the wheelchair was hidden. There are no permanent accommodations for the fact that he spent most of his waking hours in a wheelchair. Inside, the rooms are quite plain, except for the Living Room it is quite lovely:įDR was born in this house and lived here his entire life for all but the last four years his mother lived here as well.

Those columns you see aren’t marble, or even stone they are wood, fashioned to imitate stone. However, it is really a simple (yet large) farm house. The house has a great presence as you approach: At the train station we were shuttled to FDR’s Hyde Park estate, Springwood.

On 4th of July we once again took to the train this time going north, to Poughkeepsie.

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