The Breakers
Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice, it was built to replace their first
cottage, also called 'Breakers', which burned down. Countess Gladys Szechenyi, Cornelius and Alice's daughter leased the Breakers to the Preservation Society of Newport, who bought the estate from her heirs.
It is the largest in Newport.

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