Just a shack compared to Newport's cottages.
Just a shack compared to Newport's cottages.
You got that right.
We toured two Vanderbilt "cottages" last summer.
The smaller one (the "marble" cottage) was claimed by the tour program (you listen to this little i-pod player, not to a live guide, in the marble cottage) to contain 500,000 square feet of marble. I confess, I didn't actually believe that figure. I think they got it wrong. The hoity-toity are often unreliable when it comes to figures, at least in my experience.
The big mansion had hot and cold running seawater in the bathtubs, in addition to fresh water.
By the way, the tourguide in the larger cottage mentioned that a Vanderbilt decendent is, at present, a well-known media personality. Would anyone care to guess the name she revealed?
If the dud paid 32 million for that, he deserves to be broke.