The Marbles Newport Mansion

From securing the house as an outright gift from her husband at the age of 39.

The marbles newport mansion.

Vanderbilt is definitely one of the top 3 newport rhode island mansions to see in my opinion. This cottage has such a great history as do all of the mansions in newport. The others being the breakers and the elms. This palatial estate was designed by william morris hunt and completed in 1892 cost around 11 million.

Marble house is a fifty room mansion and required a staff of 36 servants. But alva vanderbilt really was something. The 50 room marble house one of the first beaux arts structures in the us was built between 1888 and 1892 as the gilded age summer cottage for william and alva vanderbilt. Marble house was built between 1888 and 1892 for mr.

Built just previous to the breakers in 1888 1892 the 50 room marble house was compared frequently to the white house for similarities between their respective porticos. The chinese tea house was added to the property later and hosted many women s suffrage rallies. Its temple front portico resembles that of the white house. Marble house the summer home of william k.

The dining room features pink marble and lots of gilded gold. The dining room like all of the rooms on the main floor of the mansion was over the top in decor and opulence. The larger mansions are self guided guided. Our tickets should not be presented at any other mansion in newport except the breakers chateau sur mer chepstow the elms green animals topiary garden hunter house isaac bell house kingscote marble house and rosecliff.

Inspired by the petit trianon in versailles the 11 million mansion made mostly of marble became a national historic landmark in 2006. It was a summer house or cottage as newporters called them in remembrance of the modest houses of the early 19th century. Marble house is a gilded age mansion in newport rhode island. Located at 596 bellevue avenue it is now open to the public as a museum run by the preservation society of newport county.