Standout perk: The Breakers offers an audio Family Tour that engages young visitors with stories about the lives of the ...

The Breakers is the city's most famous mansion and was built in the 1890s by the Vanderbilt family. The nonprofit Preservation Society of Newport County purchased it from the family in the 1970s ...

Rhode Island's highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a fight that has pitted dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family against a nonprofit that owns several Gilded Age mansions in Newport.

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, visitors walk toward an entrance to The Breakers mansion in Newport, R.I. Preservationists, architects and dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family have ...

For fans of The Gilded Age, the opulent world of the Russell and van Rhijn families often sparks curiosity about the ...

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, visitors walk toward an entrance to The Breakers mansion in Newport, R.I. Preservationists, architects and dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family have ...

Twenty-one members of the Vanderbilt family have written to board members of a preservation group that owns The Breakers, saying its management is no longer fulfilling its commitment to the public … ...

The high court on Tuesday will hear arguments about two lawsuits over the plan to build the visitors center on the 13-acre grounds of the mansion, built in the late 1800s by Cornelius Vanderbilt II.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a fight that has pitted dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family against a nonprofit that owns several Gilded ...

The high court on Tuesday will hear arguments about two lawsuits over the plan to build the visitors center on the 13-acre grounds of the mansion, built in the late 1800s by Cornelius Vanderbilt ...

The battle over the Vanderbilt mansion, The Breakers, goes before the Rhode Island Supreme Court Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. The nonprofit group that owns the spectacular mansion in Newport is ...

The high court on Tuesday will hear arguments about two lawsuits over the plan to build the visitors center on the 13-acre grounds of the mansion, built in the late 1800s by Cornelius Vanderbilt ...