Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, in 1893 this Italian Renaissance style palazzo is one of the most obviously self-advertising and conspicuous of the slough of opulent shacks in Newport. It has 70 rooms, and all were decorated by an international t eam of artists. The grandest of Newport's summer cottages, The Breakers is a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn-of-the-century America.
