Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alva Belmont, then WK Vanderbilt’s wife, costumed for a fancy dress ball which she gave in March of 1883.Bettmann/Getty Images ...

Editor's note: This story was updated on July 15, 2025, to reflect that the tea set on loan from Ventfort Hall is most likely a replica of one of Ava Vanderbilt Belmont's original set. ADAMS — It’s ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Newport’s Gilded Age socialite, evolves into ardent suffragette. March is Women’s History Month and we salute Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a grand dame of the Gilded Age who ...

NEWPORT – George Russell survived the Season 3 finale of "The Gilded Age," but is his marriage to Bertha long for this world? Not if the experience of the real-life socialite on whom Bertha is based ...

The book: “A Well Behaved Woman” by Therese Anne Fowler The site: Marble House and Belcourt, Newport, R.I. Julian Fellowes may have cast his HBO costume drama about late-19th-century New York society, ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. She built palatial residences on "Millionaires' Row" in New York and in Newport, Rhode Island. In ...