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I love these old mansions more than the new modern contemporary ones. Old money at its best. Owned by the Vanderbilts.
“ summer cottage” not even the primary home. Lol . They’d have to bury me there if it was mine.This was the Vanderbilt's "Summer cottage" where they spent 2 months out of the year
CNN's Anderson Cooper probably grew up here
Ive hung out in Newport a bit visiting my sister when she went to salve Regina. Iirc the Lipton (soup?) Mansion is also a thing.The Breakers is pretty close to where I'm from, there's a ton of gilded age mansions over there. I have family that lives around there.
I think the Biltmore Estate is probably worth a bit more (also a Vanderbilt property), but The Breakers is close. I think the city of Newport or Newport historical society bought it for essentially jack shit back in the day. I remember the number being less than a million bucks.