RHODE ISLAND
“Once a Year Go Someplace You've Never Been Before” - Dalai Lama

The Mansions of Newport, RI
The Breakers
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The Breakers was built between 1893 and 1895
as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II

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The Breakers is Italian Renaissance-style and
known to be the grandest, most extravagant mansion in Newport

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The Breaker's gates weigh seven tons and
the scroll-work rises thirty feet high

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The great hall or reception room

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The dinning room rises two stories
with life-size figures in the ceiling arches

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Mrs. Vanderbuilts bathroom
There are faucets for salt water and fresh water at the tub

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The kitchen

Marble House
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The Marble House was built from 1888 to 1892
as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt

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The grille at the front entrance is 16 ft high
25 ft wide and weighs over ten tons

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Alva Vanderbilt is said to have spent $7 million (equivalent to almost
$128 million today) on the marble used to construct the house

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The walls of the dinning room are salmon-colored marble

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The Gothic Room

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The Gold Ballroom

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Mrs. Vanderbuilts bedroom
The ceiling mural is by an unknown artist

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The Tea House was built at the rear
of the Marble House mansion in 1914

The Elms
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The Elms was built as the "summer cottage" for
coal baron Edward Julius Berwind in 1901
It's architecture is modeled after the French Château d'Asnières

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The entrance to "The Elms" has triple doors that
lead through the foyer to a large hall dominated by the staircase

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The marble staircase comes down on both sides of the entrance

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"Le Furie di Atamante" is one of many bronze figures
on the west terrace

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The Venetian style dinning room

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The Elms ballroom

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The Conservatory furnishings are original
including the fountain, statues and sculptured urn

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The second floor drawing room was actually the boudoir of the Berwinds

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Two gazebos flank the upper terrace of the sunken gardens

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The sunken gardens

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A marble statue of Diana, the "Wood Goddess"
points the way to the Elms gardens

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One of three fountains in the Elms gardens

Chateau-Sur-Mer
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Chateau-sur-Mer was the first of the great Newport mansions
built in 1852 as an Italianate villa for William Shepard Wetmore

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The dinning room

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The dinning room fireplace was carved in black walnut in 1876

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The dinning room buffet

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Mrs. Wetmore's bedroom

Rosecliff
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Rosecliff was home to Nevada silver heiress Theresa Fair Oelrichs of Nevada

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If this house looks familiar, it may be because
it has been used as a set location in movies such as
The Great Gatsby, Amistad, and True Lies.

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The ballroom is the largest of any Newport mansion

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The dinning room can be set for thirty guests

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Reception Room features a fireplace carved of Caen stone

Green Animals Topiary
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