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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."
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.
Newport, Rhode Island is a charming New England city characterized by rich history, quaint shops and restaurants and yacht-filled harbors. Amongst museums, bars and plenty of historical landmarks ...
Staten Island: Built for John M Pendleton, it was the summer house of Anson Phelps Stokes between 1868 and 1886, was abandoned in 1910s and later demolished in 1930. Wyckoff Mansion 1895 Tudor Revival: William Henry Miller: Carleton Island: Was built for William O. Wyckoff, the mansion is abandoned today. more images: Castle Rock: 1881 ...
The William K. Vanderbilt House or the Petit Chateau in 1886, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of architecture of the United States.
The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island, was the Berwind family's summer home. Edward Julius Berwind made his fortune as a coal tycoon who powered railroads during the Gilded Age.
Designed by McKim, Mead and White and built in 1896–1899, it is now the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. "Rough Point" in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Peabody and Stearns built in 1892. "Pine Tree Point", Adirondack Great Camp on Upper St. Regis Lake in 1901 "Sonogee" (1903) in Bar Harbor, Maine, purchased and renovated in 1915.