Richard Morris Hunt's The Breakers  (Frontpage)  (Thumbnails Index)  (more on Richard Morris Hunt)
 
 
 
  
 

 
Exterior Rear View 
 
 
 
Exterior Side View 

 
Rear Yard 

 
Rear Yard 

  
Interior Great Hall 

 
Interior 

 
Interior Mornng Breakfast Room 

 

 
The Breakers, Newport R.I 
1893 
Richard Morris Hunt, architect 
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In 1893 Cornelius Vanderbilt II commissioned Richard Morris Hunt to design a villa to replace the earlier wood-framed house. 

This 70 room home was styled after an Italian Renaissance style palazzi. 
 
John Singer Sargent

Gladys Vanderbilt
1906
(7th child of Cornelius Vanderbilt II)


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By:  Natasha Wallace
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Created 12/23/2000 (merry christmas)
Updated 3/31/2003