The museum opens on June 5 each year with free admission in honor of Henry Morrison Flagler and his granddaughter, Jean ...

But by 1996, almost 100 years after the Wilbur/Packer dynasty had passed, it was remembered by a New York born artist/history lover ... Mauch Chunk Italianate mansion designed for him by Samuel ...

Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion that belonged to one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families Story by [email protected] (Talia Lakritz) • 24m 1 / 31 ...

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 mansion is now a museum open to the public. Take a look inside. Completed in 1895, the Breakers is now a museum that preserves the extravagant wealthy lifestyle of a millionaire family in the ...

Of all of Newport's famous homes, The Breakers mansion is the cream of the summer cottage crop. It's also considered one of the top things to do in Rhode Island. Commissioned in 1893 by railroad ...