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36-620: Kissam is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849–1920), American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878–1944), American heir, motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman Further reading [ edit ] Kissam, Edward (1892). The Kissam Family in America from 1644 to 1825 . New York: Dempsey & Carroll's Art Press – via Internet Archive . [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

72-456: A family that, with some official rank, locally represents the royal authority; thus, the word château often refers to the dwelling of a member of either the French nobility or royalty. However, some fine châteaux, such as Vaux-le-Vicomte , were built by the essentially high- bourgeois —people but recently ennobled : tax-farmers and ministers of Louis XIII and his royal successors. The quality of

108-590: A Louis XIII style manor house along with three thoroughbred race tracks in Carrières-sous-Poissy , an hour outside Paris and on the route to Deauville , famous for its horse racing. Vanderbilt was a co-owner of the yacht Defender , which won the 1895 America's Cup and briefly owned the large steam yacht Consuelo . Vanderbilt was a founder and president of the New Theatre . Vanderbilt made significant charitable contributions to Vanderbilt University ,

144-499: A number of important races in France including: On April 20, 1875, Vanderbilt married his first wife, Alva Erskine Smith , daughter of Murray Forbes Smith and Phoebe Ann Desha. Together, they had three children: Alva later coerced Consuelo into marrying Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough on November 6, 1895. Alva divorced Vanderbilt in March 1895, at a time when divorce

180-607: A private university in Nashville, Tennessee , named for his grandfather. Vanderbilt died in Paris on July 22, 1920. His remains were brought home and interred in the Vanderbilt family mausoleum in New Dorp, Staten Island , New York. Vanderbilt's portrait, painted by F. W. Wright from an original painting by Richard Hall between 1911 and 1921, was donated to Vanderbilt University in 1921; it

216-776: A summary of the contents of Vanderbilt’s Will, which included: No provision was made as to the appointment of the $ 5,000,000 Trust he had received under his father’s Will, which was distributed to his three children in equal shares as per the Terms of the Trust. The Gross Value of the Estate was reported to be $ 54,530,966.59 following the decree fixing the income tax payable in the Suffolk County Surrogate’s Court on 6 March 1923. His sons William Vanderbilt Jr and Harold Vanderbilt received $ 21,252,757.38 and $ 21,739,867.38 respectively after

252-543: Is a manor house , or palace , or residence of the lord of the manor , or a fine country house of nobility or gentry , with or without fortifications , originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions. Nowadays, a château may be any stately residence built in a French style; the term is additionally often used for a winegrower's estate, especially in the Bordeaux region of France . The word château

288-538: Is a French word that has entered the English language, where its meaning is more specific than it is in French. The French word château denotes buildings as diverse as a medieval fortress, a Renaissance palace and a fine 19th-century country house. Care should therefore be taken when translating the French word château into English, noting the nature of the building in question. Most French châteaux are " palaces " or fine " country houses " rather than "castles", and for these,

324-465: Is a royal château in Versailles , in the Île-de-France region of France. When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to

360-402: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles William Kissam Vanderbilt William Kissam Vanderbilt I was born on December 12, 1849, in New Dorp, New York , on Staten Island . His parents were Maria Louisa Kissam and William Henry Vanderbilt , the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt , an heir to his fortune and a prominent member of the Vanderbilt family who was

396-650: Is hung in Kirkland Hall. In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS William K. Vanderbilt was named in his honor. Founding member of the Jekyll Island Club aka The Millionaires Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Contemporary estimates reported in newspapers in August 1920 speculated that the total estate of Vanderbilt was between $ 40,000,000 to $ 100,000,000. The law firm Anderson & Anderson published

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432-448: Is needed in French, the term château fort is used to describe a fortified castle, such as the Château fort de Roquetaillade . The urban counterpart of a château is a palais in French, which is usually applied only to very grand residences in a city. This usage is again different from that of the term "palace" in English, where there is no requirement that a palace must be in a city, but

468-399: The Château de Dampierre is a French Baroque château of manageable size. Protected behind fine wrought iron double gates, the main block and its outbuildings ( corps de logis ), linked by balustrades, are ranged symmetrically around a dry paved and gravelled cour d'honneur . Behind, the central axis is extended between the former parterres , now mown hay. The park with formally shaped water

504-483: The Gilded Age resort town of Newport, Rhode Island , large manor homes were called "cottages", but north of Wilmington, Delaware , in the rich, rural "Château Country" centred upon the powerful Du Pont family , the word château is used with its original definition. In Canada, especially in English, château usually denotes a hotel, not a house, and applies only to the country's most elaborate railway hotels , built during

540-746: The Shubert Organization who then transformed it into the Winter Garden Theatre . After his divorce from Alva, he moved to France where he built a château and established the Haras du Quesnay horse racing stable and breeding farm near Deauville in France's famous horse region of Lower Normandy . Among the horses he owned was the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame filly Maskette , purchased from Castleton Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, for broodmare services at his French breeding farm. Vanderbilt's horses won

576-507: The garçonnière ). Besides the cour d'honneur (court of honour) entrance, the château might have an inner cour ("court"), and inside, in the private residence, the château faces a simply and discreetly enclosed park. In the city of Paris, the Louvre (fortified) and the Luxembourg Palace (the latter originally suburban) were originally referred to as châteaux, but became "palaces" when

612-408: The surname Kissam . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kissam&oldid=891762260 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

648-968: The Canadian railroad golden age, such as the Château Lake Louise in Lake Louise, Alberta , the Château Laurier in Ottawa, the Château Montebello in Montebello, Quebec , and most famously, the Château Frontenac in Quebec City . There are many estates with true châteaux on them in the Bordeaux wine regions , but it is customary for any wine-producing estate since the 19th century, no matter how humble, to prefix its name with "Château". This term became

684-662: The French kings followed soon thereafter by the nobility; hence, the Valley is termed " The Valley of the Kings ". Alternatively, due to its moderate climate, wine-growing soils and rich agricultural land, the Loire Valley is referred to as " The Garden of France ". The châteaux range from the very large (often now in public hands) to more 'human-scale' châteaux such as the Château de Beaulieu in Saumur or

720-405: The city enclosed them. In other French-speaking European regions, such as Wallonia ( Belgium ), the word château is used with the same definition as in France. In Belgium, a strong French architectural influence is evident in the seventeenth-century Château des Comtes de Marchin and the eighteenth-century Château de Seneffe . In the United States, the word château took root selectively – in

756-513: The deduction of all debts, expenses, administration, attorney’s fees, and the levying of New York State Estate Tax of $ 1,934,571.73 and Federal Estate Tax of $ 11,459,290.16. Contemporary reports also suggest that Vanderbilt gifted $ 15,000,000 to his daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, and $ 1,000,000 each to her sons The Marquess of Blandford and Lord Ivor Churchill several months prior to his death. Ch%C3%A2teau A château ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑto] ; plural: châteaux )

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792-578: The default way of designating an estate in Bordeaux , in the same way that Domaine did in Burgundy . Both Château and Domaine are aristocratic in implication, but Bordeaux had a better claim to the association: nobles had owned Bordeaux's best vineyards for centuries. Most of Burgundy's best vineyards, in contrast, had been owned by the Church. The term Château became a permanent verbal fixture in Bordeaux, and it

828-629: The king soon after the end of the Hundred years war. The French dramatist Alexandre Dumas made the château de Montsoreau world famous with his trilogy on the French Wars of Religion of which the lady of Monsoreau is the second volume. The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a baroque French château located in Maincy , near Melun , 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. It

864-546: The medieval Château du Rivau close to Chinon which were built of the local tuffeau stone. The Château de Chenonceau is a French château spanning the river Cher, near the small village of Chenonceaux in the Indre-et-Loire department of the Loire Valley in France. It is one of the best-known châteaux of the Loire Valley. The estate of Chenonceau is first mentioned in writing in the 11th century. The current château

900-506: The residences could vary considerably, from grand châteaux owned by royalty and the wealthy elite near larger towns to run-down châteaux vacated by poor nobility and officials in the countryside, isolated and vulnerable. A château was historically supported by its terres (lands), composing a demesne that rendered the society of the château largely self-sufficient, in the manner of the historic Roman and early medieval villa system (cf. manorialism , hacienda ). The open villas of Rome in

936-604: The richest American after he took over his father's fortune in 1877 until his own death in 1885. He was the third of eight children born to his parents. His siblings were Cornelius Vanderbilt II , Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt , Emily Thorn Vanderbilt , Florence Adele Vanderbilt , Frederick William Vanderbilt , Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt , and George Washington Vanderbilt II . Vanderbilt inherited $ 55 million (equal to about $ 1.9 billion today) from his father in 1885. He managed his family railroad investments. In 1879, after taking over P. T. Barnum 's Great Roman Hippodrome which

972-506: The times of Pliny the Elder , Maecenas , and Emperor Tiberius began to be walled-in, and then fortified in the 3rd century AD, thus evolving to castellar "châteaux". In modern usage, a château retains some enclosures that are distant descendants of these fortifying outworks : a fenced, gated, closeable forecourt, perhaps a gatehouse or a keeper's lodge, and supporting outbuildings (stables, kitchens, breweries, bakeries, manservant quarters in

1008-521: The word palais is rarely used for buildings other than the grandest royal residences. The term hôtel particulier is used in French for an urban "private house" of a grand sort. A château is a "power house", as Sir John Summerson dubbed the British and Irish " stately homes " that are the British Isles' architectural counterparts to French châteaux. It is the personal (and usually hereditary) badge of

1044-459: The word "château" is appropriate in English. Sometimes the word "palace" is more appropriate. To give an outstanding example, the Château de Versailles , also called in French le palais de Versailles , is so-called because it was located in the countryside when it was built, but it does not bear any resemblance to a castle, so it is usually known in English as the Palace of Versailles. When clarification

1080-759: Was a widow to sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands and to Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Jr. , son of the astronomer Lewis Morris Rutherfurd . Her second husband had died in Switzerland in 1901. She had two sons by her first marriage and two daughters by her second marriage. She had no children by Vanderbilt. Like other prominent Vanderbilts, he built magnificent houses . His residences included Idle Hour (1900) on Long Island and Marble House (1892), designed by Richard Morris Hunt , in Newport, Rhode Island . Hunt also designed Vanderbilt's 660 Fifth Avenue mansion (1883). In 1907, Vanderbilt and his second wife built Château Vanderbilt,

1116-473: Was built by Louis Le Vau from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet , Marquis de Belle-Isle ( Belle-Île-en-Mer ), Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV . The interior was lavishly decorated by painter Charles Le Brun . Louis Le Vau as well as Charles Le Brun were later called by Louis XIV to work at Versailles. The Palace of Versailles , or in French Château de Versailles ,

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1152-467: Was built in 1514–1522 on the foundations of an old mill and was later extended to span the river. The bridge over the river was built from 1556 to 1559 to designs by the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme , and the gallery on the bridge, built from 1570 to 1576 to designs by Jean Bullant . Built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart , 1675–1683 for the duc de Chevreuse , Colbert 's son-in-law,

1188-412: Was emulated in other French regions and outside France. The winery denomination Château is now protected by French law, and confirmed in 1981 by European Union law, as "traditional appellation". The term Château may be used only if two conditions are fulfilled: The Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire) is home to more than 300 châteaux . They were built between the 10th and 20th centuries, firstly by

1224-448: Was laid out by André Le Notre . The Château de Montsoreau is the only Château of the Loire Valley to have been built directly in the Loire riverbed. It is also one of the first example of a renaissance architecture in France. Montsoreau was built in 1453 by Jean II de Chambes (first counsellor of Charles VII of France and ambassador of France to Venice and to Turkey ) by order of

1260-621: Was on railroad property by Madison Square Park , he renamed the facility Madison Square Garden . Vanderbilt was one of the founders of The Jockey Club . He was a shareholder and president of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Brooklyn, New York, and the owner of a successful racing stable. In 1881, he built the American Horse Exchange at 50th Street (Manhattan) and Broadway. In 1911 he leased it (and eventually sold it to)

1296-608: Was rare among the elite, and received a large financial settlement reported to be in excess of $ 10 million (equal to about $ 370 million today). The grounds for divorce were allegations of Vanderbilt's adultery. Indeed, one account of cheating on his wife was with none other than the Duchess of Manchester, Consuelo Yznaga, also known as his wife's best friend. Alva remarried to one of their old family friends, Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont , on January 11, 1896. In 1903, Vanderbilt married Anne Harriman , daughter of banker Oliver Harriman . She

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