Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...

A new exhibit at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum explores how Alva Belmont’s tea parties helped spark revolutionary ...

Alva Belmont on May 21, 1922. In Washington, D.C., hundreds of flag-waving protesters rallied, displaying huge signs and shouting their message. More than 100 were arrested and jailed.

The Petit Chateau was demolished in the 1920s, but you can still hobnob with Alva’s spirit at Marble House and Belcourt, her two over-the-top homes in Newport. (Both have cameos in “The Gilded ...

Count Dracula's supposed Bran Castle would cost $150 million. The house that inspired "The Great Gatsby" belonged to suffragette Alva Belmont and is worth $25 million. “In his blue garden men ...

Alva Belmont used her wealth to support the women’s suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Belmont was born in Alabama in 1853. Her father was a cotton merchant; her mother, the ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Newport’s Gilded Age socialite, evolves into ardent suffragette. ... The dinnerware debuted at Alva's second Marble House convention for suffrage in 1914.

Upon purchasing a federal-style home on Capitol Hill for the National Woman's Party headquarters, the group named it "Alva Belmont House" in her honor. The National Woman's Party donated the house ...

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's suffrage activist. ... Rhode Island, known as Marble House. Marble House.