<p>The Friends of Florham are pleased to announce the publication of FLORHAM: AN AMERICAN TREASURE: FROM THE GILDED AGE VANDERBILT-TWOMBLY ESTATE TO A CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, a pictorial history of the Vanderbilt-Twombly estate that has become Fairleigh Dickinson University's Florham Campus, illustrated with vintage photographs and a wonderful collection of color photographs taken especially for this book, which show the campus as never seen before, including amazing shots from a drone. The estate opened in 1897 as the country home of Hamilton Twombly and his wife Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, a granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Florham mansion was one of the largest private homes ever built in America, and the estate featured a model prize-winning farm. The mansion was created by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead &amp; White and the landscaping designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.</p>

Florham: An American Treasure

Arthur T. Vanderbilt II

Walter Cummins

Carol Bere

Samuel Convissor

Mark Hillringhouse (photographer)

Friends of Florham

This first photographic study of the history and “lives” of Florham encompasses a period of about 120 years: as the story of a legendary American estate created during the Gilded Age, as a family story of Vanderbilts and Twomblys, as the continuing story of the substantial growth and development of the current College at Florham of Fairleigh Dickinson University, and, finally, as a preservation story.

Florham: The Lives of an American Estate

History

Florham, Friends of

University, Fairleigh Dickinson

Americas

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