The Breakers
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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
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The gate at The Breakers
The building's exterior, framed by topiaries
The great hall
Cornelius Vanderbilt II
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Cornelius "Corneil" Vanderbilt II was an American businessman, chairman and president of railroad lines. A socialite and philanthropist, he was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt famil
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 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 138,300 square feet (12,850 m2) and 62,482 square feet (5,804.8…
Portrait of Vanderbilt by John Singer Sargent
Unissued bond of the Canada Southern Railway Company, signed by vice-president Cornelius Vanderbilt II
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt II and her daughters, Gladys and Gertrude, having tea in the library at the Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island. William Bruce Ellis Ranken, 1932
The rear facade of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II House on West 57th Street, New York