The Breakers

Tour the 70-room Vanderbilt summer house on Newport's cliffs with a self-guided audio tour of its gilded rooms.

44 Ochre Point Ave · Newport, RI

About The Breakers

The Breakers was built from 1893 to 1895 as the summer residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Renaissance Revival style. A self-guided audio tour shares first-person accounts of life in the house from family members, servants and their children. Guide-led tours go Beneath The Breakers to the underground systems and up to the private third-floor family space, opened to the public for the first time. The 14-acre estate sits on cliffs above Easton Bay.

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