Affectionately known as the Petit Chateau, the William K. Vanderbilt House was a Châteauesque mansion at 660 Fifth Avenue closer to the start of Millionaire’s Row.

Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

The divorce of Alva and William K. Vanderbilt shocked Gilded Age society, and set the bar for today’s one-percent splits.

Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 1895. The Petit Chateau on 660 Fifth Avenue and part of the Triple Palace are visible.

Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, 1895. Why do people love Fifth Avenue? JS : Fifth Avenue and Broadway, I would think, are the two most iconic New York avenues.

Titled “Fifth Avenue in the ... Hear all the gossip about the lives inside these opulent mansions, from the details of Caroline Astor's legendary ballroom to the tales of Vanderbilt's French ...