enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: gertrude conaway vanderbilt mansion tour newport ri

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bellevue Avenue Historic District - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellevue_Avenue_Historic...

    The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the Gilded Age mansions built as summer retreats around the turn of the 20th century by the extremely wealthy, including the Vanderbilt and Astor families.

  3. The Breakers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers

    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.

  4. Rough Point - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Point

    Rough Point viewed from the Newport Cliff Walk Rough Point music room. Rough Point is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a museum. It is an English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbilt. [1]

  5. Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot ...

    www.aol.com/news/look-inside-breakers-70-room...

    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.

  6. 'The Gilded Age' Features These Real-Life Mansions in New ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/real-life-mansions-were...

    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.

  7. 8 jaw-dropping facts about the famous Breakers mansion in Newport

    www.aol.com/news/8-jaw-dropping-facts-famous...

    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 ...

  8. The Breakers (1878) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers_(1878)

    The family, including Cornelius, Alice, Gertrude and Gladys, had been staying at the house for the Christmas holiday. [22] At the time, Vanderbilt stated that the house was insured for $125,000, the furniture for $75,000 and the boiler for $10,000, a total of $210,000, at least several hundred thousand dollars less than what it was worth. [22]

  9. Newport is full of history. Take a tour of the city's oldest ...

    www.aol.com/newport-full-history-tour-citys...

    1679/1680. The Mawdsley House is not the only historical property in Newport related to Gov. Benedict Arnold, either. Arnold deeded the land to another son-in-law, John Bliss, who built this ...

  1. Ad

    related to: gertrude conaway vanderbilt mansion tour newport ri