Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or ...

Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet. During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 million, or ...

However, December is a particularly festive season when the most famous mansions -- such as The Breakers, Marble House, The Elms, ... Many of the mansion's 70 rooms are decorated by theme, ...

As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, as a summer escape for his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, and their seven children. The ...

The Breakers mansion remains one of the finest examples of the extravagant displays of wealth that defined the Gilded Age. Walking through enormous rooms glittering with gold furnishings, painstaking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His grandson built the Breakers. Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion that belonged to one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families Skip to main content ...