George Washington Vanderbilt was the grandson of “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt. Edith Stuyvesant Dresser’s Dutch ancestor Peter Stuyvesant governed “New Amsterdam,” or modern-day Manhattan. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton, The Last Castle tells the unique story of America’s largest house. Spanning the World Wars, the Roaring Twenties, and the Depression and featuring well-known characters such as F. The story follows Edith Stuyvesant Dresser and George Vanderbilt, a wealthy and bookish man dedicated to erecting a European-style estate on 125,000 acres in North Carolina. Denise Kiernan’s The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home (2017) is the true story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore House, the largest and most grand residence ever constructed in the United States.
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