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Everything visitors see today while exploring the Newport mansions is thanks to the Preservation Society of Newport County, a ...
At Marble House, the 1892 mansion built by William Vanderbilt that started the “summer cottage” trend in Newport, twinkling lights illuminate the building’s 500,000 pounds of marble.
In Rhode Island, Newport was HGTV's pick, ... of a historic seaside town with the festive spirit of the holiday season," the article said "The city's Gilded Age mansions, such as The Breakers ...
The mansions of Newport, Rhode Island were once boarded up the moment the summer was over. The Gilded Age took its seasons seriously and the summer cottage was, well, just for summer. No longer ...
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Visitors to the spectacular Gilded Age mansion The Breakers now have the chance to explore its depths with a new tour that shows off the domestic technology that helped make ...
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A proposal to build a welcome center on the grounds of The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion once home to Cornelius Vanderbilt, cleared a critical hurdle on Monday. In a 4-1 ...
Newport, Rhode Island, ... The Breakers, a mansion built by the Vanderbilt family in Newport. It was among the largest homes in the country when it was built. Advertisement: ...
Ever wonder what it took to make The Breakers, one of Newport, Rhode Island's grandest 19th-century mansions, run? The Preservation Society of Newport County recently introduced the "Beneath the ...
Rhode Island's highest court heard arguments Tuesday in a fight that has pitted dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family against a nonprofit that owns several Gilded Age mansions in Newport.
NEWPORT, R.I., (AP) — The nonprofit that oversees several of Newport, Rhode Island's famous mansions hosted more than 1 million tours in 2019. It was the fourth consecutive year that the ...