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Marble House

Tour the Vanderbilts' 50-room marble summer house and its Chinese Tea House above the Atlantic.

596 Bellevue Ave · Newport, RI

About Marble House

Marble House was built between 1888 and 1892 as a summer house for Alva and William K. Vanderbilt, designed by Richard Morris Hunt with the Petit Trianon at Versailles in mind. The 50-room mansion used 500,000 cubic feet of marble. A self-guided audio tour tells how Alva used the house to secure her place in society and later to rally support for women's right to vote. Behind the house, the Chinese Tea House of 1914 overlooks the Atlantic.

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