This estate, located in Portsmouth, was originally designed by the renowned architect A.S. Walker and completed in 1902 for Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, a name synonymous with American aristocracy.

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was born in Manhattan, New York City, on Feb. 20, 1924, as the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Her father died when ...

NEWPORT, Aug. 10. -- Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt returned to-night from their wedding trip, and are at the Breakers. They arrived in Boston on the steamer Mayflower of the Dominion Line ...