About the Vanderbilt-Twombly Estate

• Audio tour of the Mansion, created by FDU students.
• The Twomblys of Florham video with Walter Savage, Carol Bere, and Arthur Vanderbilt II, recorded March 29, 2009
• Vanderbilt Family Genealogy Page with a striking photo of the Florham mansion before trees surrounded the Clowney Gardens
• Mrs. Twombly at an 1883 Ball a photo of her in her ball gown
• Biography of Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly with portrait in oil
• Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly with a number of period photographs of the Florham estate
• Maggie Land Blanck’s Postcard Collection including shots of contemporary buildings in the Madison area and one early postcard of the estate.
• Twombly’s Landing on the New Jersey Palisades describing the Twomblys’ 1909 donation of Hudson riverfront now part of Palisades Interstate Park Commission land
• Florham, a Hybrid Daylily The head gardener at Florham, at least in 1899, was Arthur Herrington, formerly of Kew Gardens. Herrington created a hybrid daylily, registered under the name of Florham.
• Alexander Hamilton Twombly shown in a stern-looking photo, was a Massachusetts State Senator.
• Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, also showing a list of Vanderbilt family homes

A Friends of Florham Bibliography

• The Big Spenders: The Epic Story of the Rich Rich, the Grandees of America and the Magnificoes, and How They Spent Their Fortunes (Paperback) ~ Lucius Beebe
  Although this book does not mention the Vanderbilt-Twombly couple in the text, it includes a contemporary line drawing depicting the couple in church on their wedding day, for those interested in the appearance of Florence’s wedding gown.
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt~ T.J. Stiles
  See Arthur Vanderbilt’s review ina recent newsletter.
• Fortune’s Children ~ Arthur T. Vanderbilt 2nd
• The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour and Tragedy (Paperback) by Clarice Stasz
• Patterson, Jerry E., The Vanderbilts, Abrams, NY, 1989
• Burden, Shirley, The Vanderbilts in My Life, Ticknor and Fields, 1981
• Burden, Wendy, Dead End Gene Pool, A Memoir
• Peggy and I: A life too busy for a dull moment (Hardcover) by William A. M. Burden (Author) — Florence Twombley Burden’s son recounts his visits to Florham as a boy
• The Vanderbilts and The Gilded Age: Architectural Aspirations 1879-1901 by John Foreman and Robbie Pierce Stimson — a chapter on each of the houses: Biltmore, Shelburne, the Breakers, Marble House, Florham, and others — built by eight grandchildren of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt.