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Frequently Asked Questions
 

Many visitors to the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park,  NY want to know how these Vanderbilts are related to the Vanderbilt Mansions in Newport, RI and Asheville, NC.  Frederick Vanderbilt (Hyde Park) was one of eight children of William H. Vanderbilt.  Frederick's older brothers Cornelius (Breakers) and William (Marble House) had homes in Newport, RI.  His younger brother George (Biltmore) built the house in Asheville, NC. 

To learn more about Frederick's brothers homes please visit their websites at:

www.newportmansions.org

www.biltmore.com

 

 
Drawing of Dolly Todd  

Did You Know?
Dolley Todd had to write a letter to the orphan court to keep her son when, her first husband John died of Yellow Fever in 1793. In 1794, she married Congressman James Madison.

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