Gates to the Vanderbilt Mansion
Children's cottage
Vanderbilt's backyard
Rosecliff
Rhode Island is a very beautiful state. We never really had looked at a map or thought about it, but it really is an island! It is full of lots of little islands and there are a lot of bays and rivers and lakes, it is so pretty there. The day we were there was perfect too, nice and sunny with a good sea breeze. The Astors, Vanderbilts, Oelrichs and a lot of other rich families built their "summer cottages" here in Newport, RI, they are called the
Newport mansions but were only their summer homes, their homes in New York were much bigger. We toured the Vanderbilts (the Breakers) and Oelrichs (Rosecliff patterened after the palace at Versailles), we wanted to see the Astors (Beachwood mansion), but it was closed. The Breakers was really neat to see, it is 138,000 sq. ft.! Gloria Vanderbilt, who inherited the summer cottage kept it in good shape and the family gave it to the preservation society and the furniture is almost entirely origional. They had a children's cottage adjacent to the house that was pretty big too, Jason looks pretty normal size in the picture, but the other house was just so much bigger that you could tell it was just for the kids to play in. Rosecliff may look familiar to you, it is not as origional because the only heir to the house sold it for 21,000 and it was abandoned and damaged so a lot had to be restored. The Great Gatsby, True Lies, Amistad, and 27 Dresses were all filmed here.
Gates to the Vanderbilt Mansion
Children's cottage
Rhode Island is a very beautiful state. We never really had looked at a map or thought about it, but it really is an island! It is full of lots of little islands and there are a lot of bays and rivers and lakes, it is so pretty there. The day we were there was perfect too, nice and sunny with a good sea breeze. The Astors, Vanderbilts, Oelrichs and a lot of other rich families built their "summer cottages" here in Newport, RI, they are called the Newport mansions but were only their summer homes, their homes in New York were much bigger. We toured the Vanderbilts (the Breakers) and Oelrichs (Rosecliff patterened after the palace at Versailles), we wanted to see the Astors (Beachwood mansion), but it was closed. The Breakers was really neat to see, it is 138,000 sq. ft.! Gloria Vanderbilt, who inherited the summer cottage kept it in good shape and the family gave it to the preservation society and the furniture is almost entirely origional. They had a children's cottage adjacent to the house that was pretty big too, Jason looks pretty normal size in the picture, but the other house was just so much bigger that you could tell it was just for the kids to play in. Rosecliff may look familiar to you, it is not as origional because the only heir to the house sold it for 21,000 and it was abandoned and damaged so a lot had to be restored. The Great Gatsby, True Lies, Amistad, and 27 Dresses were all filmed here.
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