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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."
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The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. ... The Vanderbilts hired architect Richard Morris Hunt ...
Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers premieres on Friday, Feb. 2 at 9 p.m. ET on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Related: Hotel Portofino Returns For Its Sophmore Season!
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 ...
Newport on TV: After some teasing, 'The Gilded Age' will be back for a Season 3. Murder at the Breakers is the first installment of Maxwell’s ‘Gilded Newport Mysteries’ series.
Schultze & Weaver architect Lloyd Morgan (1892–1970), in 1929, designed the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel which, upon its completion in 1931, was the world's largest, with 2,200 rooms. Schultze & Weaver redesigned and renovated the Grand Ballroom in New York City's Plaza Hotel in the autumn of 1929.