Sunday, August 12, 2007
Mystery photo!
Identify this building. Incremental points redeemable for respect and glory on this blog for naming the building, its location, and its original owner. Diety status if you can identify the famous Supreme Court case that plowed the road for the original fortune earned by the family that built this building.
5 Comments:
By 
, at
Sun Aug 12, 08:02:00 AM:
The Breakers, cottage of the Vanderbilts.
Wiki is not giving me what I want, so I'm going with Gibbons v. Ogden.
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 08:09:00 AM:
Cornelius, of course, and Newport.
By 
TigerHawk, at
Sun Aug 12, 08:42:00 AM:
Well. That was the fastest mystery photo identification we've had. Correct on all, including Gibbons v. Ogden. Cornelius Vanderbilt, father of the Cornelius who built the Breakers, was Gibbons' captain.
By , at
Sun Aug 12, 10:09:00 AM:
Jack ... when Stacy and I went there years ago, it was December and the middle of a hurricane coming thru the region. The Breakers was closed, but the Marble House was open. Shiploads of marble to build it.
The scale of the building is overwhelming, so I'm sure the tour of the inside is just magnificent. I saw the Breakers right off the top, but hat tip to NancyT and Stacy for assisting on what to look for on railroads.
Ah ... the good old days pre-taxation.
JT in NC
By GreenmanTim, at
Sun Aug 12, 02:06:00 PM:
And why do we, dear cousin, have an interest in that particular Supreme Court Case, besides the boon it has meant for interstate commerce? None other than Gr-gr-gr-great grandfather Aaron Ogden of Gibbons v. Ogden relnown, whose other claim to fame was the "get out of jail free card" he received courtesy of family friend Aaron Burr and the New York legislature prohibiting the jailing of Revolutionary War Vets for debt. Fine old gent, judging from the various portraits, with that generation-jumping "Ogden Nose."
