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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 .
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.
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 commission was given to McKim, Mead, and White in 1898, and the New York branch of Jules Allard and Sons were engaged as interior decorators. Construction started in 1899, but the sharp winter slowed construction; Mrs. Oelrichs' sister had married William K. Vanderbilt II that winter season, and the house was required for parties in the following Newport season; the eager Mrs. Oelrichs ...
The Colony House: Newport, Rhode Island Courtesy of the Newport Historical Society The Colony House , which is managed by the Newport Historical Society, is a Georgian-style building that was ...
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 ...
Seaview Terrace and hedge.. In 1907, whiskey millionaire Edson Bradley built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre—90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911—known as Aladdin's Palace.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1968 and purchased by the Preservation Society of Newport County in 1969. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2006. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The former carriage house and stables for the Chateau-Sur-Mer estate are owned by Salve Regina University and are currently being renovated ...