The facade
Stone arches.
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The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion at 44 Ochre Point Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, about 3 km from the town centre in a straight line, on cliffs overlooking Easton Bay on the Atlantic. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer home for Cornelius Vanderbilt II of the wealthy Vanderbilt family. The architect Richard Morris Hunt designed it in the Renaissance Revival style, with 70 rooms on five floors. It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1994 and is run by the Preservation Society of Newport County. Huge wrought-iron gates mark the entrance, a limestone-and-iron fence surrounds the grounds, and the pale stone front with its arches and loggias looks over a wide green lawn running to the sea, on an estate of about 5.7 hectares. Visitors tour the interior and then stroll the grounds. Newport's famous Cliff Walk passes nearby, with views of the sea and other mansions from the same era, so the two pair easily.
Stone arches.
Down to the sea.
Close by.
44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Yes, on a paid tour.
May to October.