Vanderbilt
Tennessee private university
Vanderbilt is a surname associated with the wealthy American family whose fortune came from railroads and shipping in the 19th century.
Cornelius Vanderbilt built an industrial empire; his descendants became symbols of Gilded Age excess.
The name appears in institutions the family endowed: Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Hall.
To invoke Vanderbilt is to evoke old money and American dynasties.
Traditional masculine given name
- GloriaHymn praising God
- BiltmoreGilded Age American chateau
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- fortuneWealth or destiny
Anderson Cooper · inheritance · heir · heiress · socialite · Whitney · magnate · tycoon
Tennessee's largest city
- SECStock market regulator
- privateRestricted to certain parties
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- PeabodyAnglo surname, various namesakes
divinity · medical school · campus · undergraduate · graduate · endowment · athletics · anchor down
Medical treatment facility
- clinicOutpatient treatment facility
- NashvilleTennessee's largest city
- teaching hospitalFacility combining care and education
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
transplant · cancer center · healthcare · pediatrics · trauma · specialists · innovation · patient care
Gilded Age American chateau
- AshevilleMountain city in western Carolina
- mansionLarge, stately home
- châteauFrench country mansion
- gardensCultivated planting areas
winery · preservation · tourism · architecture · Beaux-Arts · opulence · grounds · forestry
Cornelius
Traditional masculine given name
Anderson Cooper · fortune · inheritance · heir · heiress · socialite · Whitney · magnate · tycoon · patriarch
Nashville
Tennessee's largest city
Peabody · divinity · medical school · campus · undergraduate · graduate · endowment · athletics · anchor down · Owen
hospital
Medical treatment facility
- clinicOutpatient treatment facility
- NashvilleTennessee's largest city
- teaching hospitalFacility combining care and education
research · transplant · cancer center · healthcare · pediatrics · trauma · specialists · innovation · patient care · biomedical
Biltmore
Gilded Age American chateau
gardens · winery · preservation · tourism · architecture · Beaux-Arts · opulence · grounds · forestry · estate management
- Gilded Age FiguresCarnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Frick, Huntington
- Southern CollegesAlabama, Auburn, Clemson, Duke University, Florida
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
- bridgecontract bridge, duplicate bridge, rubber bridge, bridge table, trump
- Elite CollegesStanford, MIT, Caltech, Duke, Northwestern
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
VanderbiltSamuel Gompers
Mother Jones · trade unionism · socialism · Ida Tarbell · Upton Sinclair
VanderbiltCarnegie
Gilded Age industrialist
Andrew Carnegie · Rockefeller · Warren Buffett · Bill Gates · philanthropist
- Vanderbilt UniversityPrivate research university in Nashville
- Gloria Vanderbilt
- Cornelius Vanderbilt