Why did the Vanderbilts maintain such a large staff?
Reading 2 was adapted from Bronwyn Krog, “Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site” (Dutchess County, New York) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior; National Park Service, 1979; the National Park Service visitor brochure for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site; and John Foreman and Robbe Pierce Stimson, The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age: Architectural Aspirations, 1879-1901 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
