There were local beer barons as well as the Vanderbilt family.
A tour of the 211-acre estate which was home to the Vanderbilt family from 1895 to 1940.
The Vanderbilt family made their fortune in the railroad industry and other investments.
Many members of the Vanderbilt family attended the church when summering in Newport.
The estate was primarily used as a vacation home for the Vanderbilt family.
Ownership passed from the Vanderbilt family in 1922.
The Vanderbilt family had by then given up control of most of their former railroad interests.
In its early history, much of the surrounding land was owned by the Vanderbilt family.
It was built on land formerly belonging to the Vanderbilt family.
The Vanderbilt family would eventually buy the house outright, in 1911.
