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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 .
Right off of the Cliff Walk path lies the most famous of all the mansions in Newport: The Breakers. The Breakers mansion was commissioned to be built by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II in ...
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 (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."
Akron, Ohio: Frank Seiberling: Stan Hywet Hall Foundation [34] 1915: Tudor Revival: Charles Sumner Schneider: 20: 64,000 sq ft (5,900 m 2) [35] Fair Field: Sagaponack, New York: Ira Rennert [36] 2003: Italian Renaissance: Mark Ferguson [37] 21: 62,482 sq ft (5,804.8 m 2) [38] The Breakers: Newport, Rhode Island: Cornelius Vanderbilt II ...
Here are all of the historic houses featured in The Gilded Age—including The Breakers, Marble House, Lyndhurst Mansion, and more in New York and Rhode Island. ... Hunter House: Newport, Rhode ...
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.
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