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

Be one of the first to peek inside previously off-limits private residences at The Breakers, a palatial Vanderbilt mansion in Newport! Nicole Saraniero August 09 2024 4 min read ...

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 in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. His grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, succeeded him as ...

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 first Breakers mansion was made of wood and burned down in 1892 in a boiler explosion. The architect, Richard Morris Hunt, designed an innovative indirect hot water system powered by coal to ...

Now operated as house museums by The Preservation Society of Newport County, three of the mansions—Marble House, The Elms, and The Breakers—reach their peak glory in the colder months. As soon ...

The library at the Breakers. Photo courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County. Cornelius Vanderbilt II only lived for four years after the house was built, dying of a stroke at age 55.

The "Beneath the Breakers Tour" brings visitors into the underground boiler room of The Breakers to see the boilers that powered the mansion. The tour, which starts in the caretaker's cottage ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - A philanthropist says he had no idea until this week that he was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit opposing a plan to construct a welcome center at The Breakers mansion in Newport.