As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room ... Newport, Rhode Island, as a summer escape for his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, and their seven children. The seaside residence, named "the Breakers ...

Visiting Rhode Island’s Newport Mansions around Christmas ... but sometimes it can be something unique. Like in the music room at The Breakers, the walls have platinum leaf, and so we looked ...

The Breakers is the most majestic mansion in Newport, serving as a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's great financial and social success. "If you go to France you have to go to Versailles.

Of all of Newport's famous homes, The Breakers mansion is the cream of the summer cottage crop. Commissioned in 1893 by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers is a Renaissance-style ...