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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.
Vanderbilt replaced the 1878 residence with the massive and now more well-known The Breakers, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and constructed between 1893 and 1895. [1] This new structure became a 70-room mansion with a gross area of 125,339 square feet (11,644.4 m 2 ) and 62,482 square feet (5,804.8 m 2 ) of living area on five floors that is ...
The Vanderbilts, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families, owned multiple opulent homes. The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape.
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.
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,
The Breakers, a Vanderbilt mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, is famous for its size and opulence. The Breakers. Alexander Nesbitt/The Preservation Society of Newport County.
For the first time in 120 years, the Vanderbilts are completely out, and archivists have moved in. New Photos Offer a Rare Look Inside the Vanderbilt Family Apartment at The Breakers Skip to main ...
Built for a Vanderbilt family heir, Biltmore is the largest home in the United States Built for another Vanderbilt family heir, The Breakers, a Newport, Rhode Island seaside mansion epitomizes the Gilded Age mansion era with its opulence and size