It was in Newport where Cushing first met Gertrude Vanderbilt at a dinner party in 1893. The daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, she spent summers at her family's Newport cottage, The Breakers.

This extravagant country home in Newport, Rhode Island, belonged to the wealthy Vanderbilt family. Inspired by the 16th-century palaces of Genoa and Turin, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt’s grandson, ...

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A stay at the venue that's hosted celebrity weddings and a Taylor Swift video, in the midst of its owner's bankruptcy filing.

Commissioned in 1893 by railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers is a Renaissance-style "summer cottage" inspired by the palaces in northern Italy.

The Breakers, built in 1895 for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, is the grandest of Newport’s summer “cottages,” with 70 rooms, Italian Renaissance–style architecture and a jaw-dropping Great Hall ...

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