Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marble House.Alexander Nesbitt — The Preservation Society of Newport County Marble House was completed in 1892 as a summer home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island. Marble House was completed in 1892 as a summer home for William K. Vanderbilt and Alva ...

Alva Erskine Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, on January 17, 1853. She and her parents would spend summers in Newport, Rhode Island. During the Civil War, her family moved to Europe, and she ...

Marie Antoinette had the Petit Trianon. Alva Vanderbilt had Marble House—and she refused to consider that a lesser fate. When William Kissam Vanderbilt presented it to her on her 39th birthday, he ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s a sparkling July morning and Lord Julian Fellowes is in the Gold Room of the Newport Marble House. It’s only fitting — the creator of the famed “Downton ...

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's suffrage activist.

NEWPORT – George Russell survived the Season 3 finale of "The Gilded Age," but is his marriage to Bertha long for this world? Not if the experience of the real-life socialite on whom Bertha is based ...

Alva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present from her husband was a 140,000-square-foot summer "cottage" on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island. As heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune during the Gilded ...

Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, between circa 1915 and circa 1920. Shows Alva Belmont (1853-1933), formerly Alva Erskine Smith, who was married first to William Kissam Vanderbilt and then to Oliver Hazard Perry ...