The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. His grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, succeeded him as the ...

"Sparkling Lights" is an indoor-outdoor holiday experience that runs through December at The Breakers. Illuminated trees and shrubs on the grounds define the mansion’s landscape with stunning colors.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Twenty-one members of the Vanderbilt family have written to board members of a preservation group that owns The Breakers, saying its management is no longer fulfilling its ...

The Vanderbilts, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families, owned multiple opulent homes. The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape. Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 ...