Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt

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The union of two of the great Gilded Age fortunes through the marriage of Harry P. Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt at the Breakers in Newport Rhode Island

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… the eldest son and main heir of William Collins Whitney, was to marry Getrude Vanderbilt, the elder of two daughters of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the railroad tycoon, head of the House of Vanderbilt, America’s richest family.

The Cornelius Vanderbilts were long time neighbors of the Payne-Whitneys, at the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, where the Whitneys had bought and enlarged the former [Frederic] Stevens mansion (Nr 2 West Fifty Seventh street) in 1879. More precisely, ...

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