The Breakers is the largest and most well known mansion in Newport. A 70 room, Italian Renaissance inspired "cottage", this was the summer home of the Vanderbilt family. Today this house is listed as a National Historic Landmark.

44 Ochre Point Ave., Newport, RI 02840 The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.

This 70-room villa was built by leading American architect Richard Morris Hunt for Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice in 1895. Its interiors include rich marbles and gilded rooms, a 50-foot high Great Hall, mosaic tile floors and ceilings, and open-air terraces with magnificient ocean views.