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Marble House is in Newport, Rhode Island.Alexander Nesbitt — The Preservation Society of Newport CountyAlva Vanderbilt's 39th birthday present from her husband was a 140,000-square-foot summer "cottage" on the shores ...

Locust Grove's drawing room.Talia Lakritz/Business InsiderWhen Samuel F. B. Morse wasn't creating Morse code, inventing the telegraph, or painting portraits, he was relaxing on the grounds of his Locust Grove ...

A study in the Vanderbilt mansion.Talia Lakritz/Business InsiderDuring the Gilded Age in the late 1800s, railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was the richest man in America with a net worth of ...