Esta tarde hemos visitado The Breakers, la mansión más importante de la zona. Hemos hecho una visita guiada para conocer cómo la familia Vanderbilt amasó tal fortuna en los años 1800s aprovechando el auge del ferrocaril...If you want to learn more about The Breakers read the information below.
It was not allowed to take photos inside the mansion so I have taken some from the Internet.
The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States on the Atlantic Ocean.
The Breakers was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt and with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., the 70-room mansion has approximately 6,000 m2 of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than $12 million (approximately $310 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation).
The designers created an interior using marble imported from Italy and Africa plus rare woods and mosaics from countries around the world. It also included architectural elements (such as the library mantel) purchased from chateaux in France.
The Breakers is the architectural and social archetype of the "Gilded Age", a period when members of the Vanderbilt family were among the major industrialists of America. Indeed, "if the Gilded Age were to be summed up by a single house, that house would have to be The Breakers." During 1895, the year of its completion, The Breakers was the largest, most opulent house in the Newport area.
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