The Marbles Newport Mansion

This palatial estate was designed by william morris hunt and completed in 1892 cost around 11 million.

The marbles newport mansion. The chinese tea house was added to the property later and hosted many women s suffrage rallies. Vanderbilt is definitely one of the top 3 newport rhode island mansions to see in my opinion. Marble house is a gilded age mansion in newport rhode island. Newport mansion the marble house see 1 724 traveler reviews 1 078 candid photos and great deals for newport ri at tripadvisor.

A must see fabulous structure built with tons and tons of marble. Inspired by the petit trianon in versailles the 11 million mansion made mostly of marble became a national historic landmark in 2006. Marble house the summer home of william k. This cottage has such a great history as do all of the mansions in newport.

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. It was a summer house or cottage as newporters called them in remembrance of the modest houses of the early 19th century. The others being the breakers and the elms. Our tickets should not be presented at any other mansion in newport except the breakers chateau sur mer chepstow the elms green animals topiary garden hunter house isaac bell house kingscote marble house and rosecliff.

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. Marble house is a fifty room mansion and required a staff of 36 servants. The dining room features pink marble and lots of gilded gold.

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. Designed as a summer cottage for alva and william kissam vanderbilt by the society architect richard morris hunt it was unparalleled in opulence for an american house when it was completed in 1892. The larger mansions are self guided guided. From securing the house as an outright gift from her husband at the age of 39.