The Marbles Newport Mansion

This cottage has such a great history as do all of the mansions in newport.

The marbles newport mansion.

Marble house the summer home of william k. From securing the house as an outright gift from her husband at the age of 39. A must see fabulous structure built with tons and tons of marble. This palatial estate was designed by william morris hunt and completed in 1892 cost around 11 million.

Inspired by the petit trianon in versailles the 11 million mansion made mostly of marble became a national historic landmark in 2006. The others being the breakers and the elms. Marble house is a fifty room mansion and required a staff of 36 servants. 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.

But alva vanderbilt really was something. The dining room like all of the rooms on the main floor of the mansion was over the top in decor and opulence. It was a summer house or cottage as newporters called them in remembrance of the modest houses of the early 19th century. 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.

Newport mansion the marble house see 1 724 traveler reviews 1 078 candid photos and great deals for newport ri at tripadvisor. Marble house was built between 1888 and 1892 for mr. Vanderbilt is definitely one of the top 3 newport rhode island mansions to see in my opinion. Located at 596 bellevue avenue it is now open to the public as a museum run by the preservation society of newport county.

Marble house is a gilded age mansion in newport rhode island. The larger mansions are self guided guided. 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.