Quite a Cottage
Like the other Newport mansions, The Breakers was a summer "cottage." Cornelius Vanderbilt's 70-room Italian Renaissance-style villa seems more like an American palace to me!
All photographs by Kim Knox Beckius, copyright 2000, licensed to About.com, Inc.
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