Sentences with phrase «of railroad magnate»

In 1907, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney — the great - granddaughter of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt — moved to a carriage house apartment and studio space in Greenwich Village and shook up the art world.

The 207 - room Spanish Colonial Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara first opened its doors in 1927 as a part of the Bowman - Biltmore hotel group, evoking the estates of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt during America's gilded age.

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This magnificent structure, which opened in 1902 at a cost of $ 200,000 (huge in its time), was considered to be the «finest railroad hotel on earth» and was hotel magnate Fred Harvey's finest lodging creation.

The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don't want black women voting.

Disgraced Swedish detective, Gustaf Gustav, vows to find the killer amongst the other guests: a blind butler, a convicted murderer, the world's most famous actress, Tesla's former assistant, the son of a wealthy railroad magnate, and rival inventor Thomas Edison.

In 1878, he started making pictures at railroad magnate Leland Stanford's horse farm in Palo Alto, California, where he developed an electronic shutter that enabled exposures as fast as one - thousandth of a second.