Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Now a National Historic Landmark, visiting the Breakers is rated as one of top three things to do in Newport and is seen as a tangible symbol of the Vanderbilt family's wealth and social superiority.
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 The Breakers's Great Hall. She inherited about $25 million (equivalent to almost $1 billion today) from her father's estate and a further $5 million from her mother's estate. [4] She also inherited The Breakers. In 1948, as a widow, she leased The Breakers to the Preservation Society of Newport County for $1 ...
The movie will premiere on the Hallmark Movies & Mystery Channel on Feb. 2 at 9 p.m. E.T. This article originally appeared on Newport Daily News: Hallmark channel to air 'Murder at the Breakers ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The Breakers (American band), a 1960s garage rock band; The Breakers (Danish band), a Danish rock band active 2002–2012 "Breakers" (song), a 2012 song by Local Natives; Orlando Breakers, a fictional National Football League team in Coach; New York City Breakers, a professional pioneer Breaking and B-boy crew or group