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The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II , a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family .
The Breakers (built in 1878) was a Queen Anne style cottage designed by Peabody and Stearns for Pierre Lorillard IV and located along the Cliff Walk on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. [1] In 1883, it was referred to as "unquestionably the most magnificent estate in Newport."
The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island, designed for Cornelius Vanderbilt II (built 1892–1895) Vanderbilt Mausoleum , Staten Island, New York (built 1885–1886) Administration Building, World's Columbian Exposition , Chicago (completed 1893, demolished)
As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, as a summer escape for his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, and their seven children.
The Breakers mansion was commissioned to be built by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1893 and quickly became the summer home for the Vanderbilt family for generations to come,
He also built The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island. Cornelius II's brother, William Kissam Vanderbilt, also featured prominently in the family's affairs. He also built a home on Fifth Avenue and would become one of the great architectural patrons of the Gilded Age, hiring the architects for (the third, and surviving) Grand Central Terminal.
This mansion remains the largest private residence ever built in Manhattan. Demolished. The Breakers, Newport, RI "The Breakers" in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1892 to 1895, which was also designed by Richard Morris Hunt. [1] "Oakland Farm" (1893), mansion and stables on 150 acres in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Demolished.
Ochre Court is a large châteauesque mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.Commissioned by Ogden Goelet, it was built at a cost of $4.5 million in 1892.It is the second largest mansion in Newport after nearby The Breakers.