page_title: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt / Career
caption_attribution_description: The building at 4 Park Avenue, between East 33rd and 34th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built as the Vanderbilt Hotel in 1910-13, designed by Warren &amp; Wetmore, but is now used for officed. The old crypted vault of the hotel is a NYCLPC interior landmark, and is currently a restaurant. (Source: AIA Guide to NYC (4th ed.), Guide to NYC Landmarks (4th ed.))
context_page_description: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. was a wealthy American businessman, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. He died on RMS Lusitania.
context_section_description: Soon after his return to New York, Vanderbilt began working as a clerk in the offices of the New York Central Railroad, as preparation for entering into the councils of the company as one of its principal owners. Subsequently, he was chosen a director in other companies as well, among them the Fulton Chain Railway Company, Fulton Navigation Company, Raquette Lake Railway Company, Raquette Lake Transportation Company, and the Plaza Bank of New York.
  Vanderbilt was a good judge of real estate values and projected several important enterprises. On the site of the former residence of the Vanderbilt family, and including, also, several adjacent plots, he built the Vanderbilt Hotel at Park Avenue and 34th Street, New York, which he made his city home.
  Among Vanderbilt's many holdings were positions in the New York Central Railroad, Beech Creek Railroad, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Michigan Central Railroad and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad as well as the Pullman Company.
caption: Vanderbilt Hotel, built in 1913
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