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The second floor housed a salon a music room and a conservatory.
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This floor also had an office breakfast room pantry and a smoking room.
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The first floor featured a small and grand salon two story ballroom and a two story dining room and a gallery.
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Upstairs were the numerous family bedrooms and guest rooms along with the play room and servants rooms.
Aug 16 2012 in the early 1890 s millionaire cornelius vanderbilt ii commissioned a block long renovation to his already large new york city mansion that changed the world s view of the vanderbilt s forever.
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The cornelius vanderbilt ii mansion new york city.
Among the gilded age mansions on 5th avenue were the mansions of the brothers vanderbilt.
It burned on november 25 1892 and vanderbilt commissioned famed architect richard morris hunt to rebuild it in splendor.
Cornelius vanderbilt ii purchased the grounds in 1885 for 450 000 12 8 million today.
The townhouse occupying the northwest corner of fifth avenue and 57th street was constructed for cornelius vanderbilt ii eldest grandson of the commodore cornelius vanderbilt founder of the family fortune in 1883 the ground level contained a drawing room dining room which doubled as the art gallery and a reception room.
In 1883 vanderbilt had had a large townhouse built on the corner of 57th street that could suit him and his large family comf.
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The cornelius vanderbilt ii mansion new york city when william henry vanderbilt the richest man in the world at the time died he left the most of his 200 million estate divided equally between his 2 eldest sons cornelius corneil and william willie.
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The floor plan is designed where the huge ballroom can be expanded to create an.
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The floor plan of the house shows that tthe rooms on the first floor were centered around the large great hall and ballroom.
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The previous mansion on the property was owned by pierre lorillard iv.