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  2. The Breakers - Wikipedia

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    December 8, 1972. 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 m 2) and 62,482 square feet ...

  3. The Breakers (1878) - Wikipedia

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    The Breakers (1878) /  41.46972°N 71.29861°W  / 41.46972; -71.29861. The Breakers (built in 1878) was a Queen Anne style cottage designed by Peabody and Stearns for Pierre Lorillard IV and located along the Cliff Walk on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. [1] In 1883, it was referred to as "unquestionably the most magnificent ...

  4. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt - Wikipedia

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    In 1908, he donated $100,000 to build the Mary Street YMCA (today the Vanderbilt Hotel) in Newport, Rhode Island, in memory of his father Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843 – 1899). Ground breaking was on August 31, 1908, with the cornerstone laid on November 19, 1908, by Vanderbilt. The dedication was on January 1, 1910. RMS Lusitania

  5. 8 jaw-dropping facts about the famous Breakers mansion in Newport

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    Right off of the Cliff Walk path lies the most famous of all the mansions in Newport: The Breakers. The Breakers mansion was commissioned to be built by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II in ...

  6. Spat over Vanderbilt family mansion gets public and nasty - AOL

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    NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The Vanderbilt family, once synonymous with American wealth and power, has fallen into a full-blown public spat with the organization that now owns their spectacular Rhode ...

  7. Vanderbilt family - Wikipedia

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    The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build grand mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York ...

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