The Breakers
Newport, United States
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion at 44 Ochre Point Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Richard Morris Hunt designed the 70-room house in the Renaissance Revival style, with interior decor by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman Jr. Owned and operated by the Newport Preservation Society as a historic house museum, it is open year-round.
Architect
Movement
- Built
- Type
- mansion, historic house museum
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Register of Historic Places contributing property
- Place
- Newport, United States
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