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The Breakers is the architectural and social archetype of the "Gilded Age", a period when members of the Vanderbilt family were among the major industrialists of America. [7] It was the largest, most opulent house in the Newport area upon its completion in 1895.
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."
Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or ...
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, 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 ...
Townhouse, her second, a 70-room house at 1 East 71st Street, New York. Designed by Whitney Warren. Demolished. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938) Hyde Park, Hyde Park, NY "Hyde Park" in Hyde Park, New York. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896–1899, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site.
The Breakers Palm Beach is a historic, Renaissance Revival style luxury hotel with 534 rooms. It is located at 1 South County Road in Palm Beach, Florida.During the 1895–96 winter season, business tycoon Henry Flagler opened the first Breakers resort, then the only oceanfront lodging south of Daytona Beach, to accommodate additional tourists due to the popularity of his Royal Poinciana Hotel.
A rendering depicts the lobby, bar and dining room at the under-renovation Palm House hotel at 160 Royal Palm Way in Palm Beach. The property's owner has announced the hotel will open in November.