Been there. It's absolutely beautiful.

Wonderful peek into the downstairs history. The inside story of The Breakers is in the book FORTUNE'S CHILDREN; THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VANDERBILT. An amazing story!

Someone can make spin-off Downton Abbey American version at this place..

@jillaberdeen8945

4 жыл бұрын

It could be Cora Levinsons house!

I toured the Breakers mansion a few years back. Words and photos can not describe the beauty and opulence of this place. It is a palatial and magnificent structure so unreal it is mind boggling. You just have to wonder how people could live here like kings and queens with such insane luxury. Apparently, the Breakers mansion or “cottage” as it was called, was used just as a summer home. The Vanderbilts would throw lavish parties trying to undo their neighbors’. Definitely a must to see - - the Newport mansions.

@Reichthoff

3 жыл бұрын

It's really impressive though I've never been there. They were really able to replicate the grandest European country houses.

The staff quarters look pretty nice to me.

@rodneysammons5544

2 жыл бұрын

Not bad for the Plebs

I’ve been there today actually it was BEAUTIFUL!

@gordonhall752

5 жыл бұрын

It's garish and funereal.

For those that have lived on cruise ships, the rooms would be considered spacious, windows the size of a porthole (although I didn't see one at the Breakers) would be considered luxury.

Spectacular!

Commodore Vanderbilt is buried in a decaying mausoleum in Staten Island that has had to be shuttered with steel and concrete to keep out the grave robbers and vandals. The fortune was squandered away long ago, mostly by Alva wife of August Belmont, the fellow who loved his horses a lot more than most. Alva divorced William K. Vanderbilt after she spent most of his fortune foolishly

@pantarguitars

5 жыл бұрын

Dam sounds Depressing

@piusx8317

5 жыл бұрын

@@orianna9200 Not sad at all. Those were the times and they knew it

@angelfirelite

5 жыл бұрын

@@pantarguitars ....Richness usually is a depressing state in such a very temporary world!

@gordonhall752

5 жыл бұрын

The Vanderbilt Mausoleum (designed by Richard Morris Hunt) has been damaged by the misfits who today call Staten Island their home. Their fortune was not "squandered". Most recently Gloria Vanderbilt (mother of Anderson Cooper) was interred there but outside of the Mausoleum. When Commodore Vanderbilt was a boy, Staten Island was the site of his beautiful family farmhouse. Today the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp is a contradiction in that its placement is in the middle of an extremely bourgeois neighborhood.

@maggiemae7749

5 жыл бұрын

They squandered their money because of these huge houses and the huge dowry they had to pay for marrying their daughter off to a broke Duke that had a bloodline but no money.

You can virtual tour the house from the comforts of your own (presumably smaller) home now. Or at least the parts of it the Newport Preservation Society want you to see, anyway. For whatever reason, even after kicking the heirs out, the top 2 floors are still off limits. So are huge chunks of the basement, the mezzanine floor and an entire bedroom suite on the 2nd floor which they are using as a garbage disposal.

I toured the Breakers. Beautiful.

@ramencurry6672

Жыл бұрын

Nice place

So very difficult to find good help these days...m

Pretty cool

I thought it was a tour of the mansion, not the staff quarters.....

@1973Washu

6 жыл бұрын

The staff quarters is part of the mansion. And it is interesting to see inside of a part of a mansion that is often overlooked in most tours.

@geneturtle3298

5 жыл бұрын

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@gordonhall752

5 жыл бұрын

If you want a freaking tour, drive to Newport and take one! Jesus.

@1940limited

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, but the staff quarters are interesting.

the hallway and rooms are that of houses costing 1/2 a million dollars today LOL

The good ole days :)

@sandrasharp2934

4 жыл бұрын

Tough life those Vanderbilt's had

How would 'The Breakers' in Rhode Island compare to the one in Palm Beach?

@pantarguitars

5 жыл бұрын

Cannot compare

Weren't they referred to as cottages?

@1940limited

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.

I have been there before

What a home and a life, but not by the slaves right. Anderson Cooper can tell you all about,im sure

I'm from Asheville NC home of the biltmore estate the mansion of all mansions in America also owned by the Vanderbilts it puts this place to shame and the servants quarters are bigger than my bedroom

@gordonhall752

5 жыл бұрын

Biltmore does not put The Breakers "to shame". You're nuts. (.. and for the love of Christ capitalize "Biltmore"!!)

@Reichthoff

3 жыл бұрын

Biltmore may be larger but it is nowhere near the largest home in the world.

@lonewolfattack8071

2 жыл бұрын

Biltmore may not be McMansion-awful, but compared to The Breakers, it's a huge mess. The outside looks like Waddesdon Manor exploded and somebody put the pieces back together all wrong. The inside is a maze and the rooms are an architectural mismatch. They both may be knock-off, scaled-down versions of European palaces, but The Breakers is the one that doesn't feel like it is.

Accommodations for the help certainly were spartan. Regardless of that, back then you could hire people for peanuts that were loyal and trustworthy. Try that today.

@salnellen1381

4 жыл бұрын

g bridgman who wants to work for peanuts?

3:20 why is that door not touching the ground?

@angelfirelite

5 жыл бұрын

LoL !

@angelfirelite

5 жыл бұрын

Second thought on that one, probably a suicide door, ya know, just in case!

@1940limited

4 жыл бұрын

Watch that first step. It's a lulu!

Reporter (Michaela) is the fifth column between the 4 others, news

Why dont they make a Vanderbilt series, like the dynasty series or like the revious comment downton abby

Gladys and Paul have been booted out of the servants quarters and escorted out. These were the last Vanderbilt descendants to reside there.

@maggiemae7749

5 жыл бұрын

Why were they booted out?

@gordonhall752

5 жыл бұрын

@@maggiemae7749 They'd outstayed their welcome.

I never heard of it.

Yes its nice that history is being preserved. The younger generations foolishly sqandered their wealth. The old man may not have been able to read but he had to be darn wise to accomplish. The thing is, his sons did not raise their children as stern and with the values he raised them with. They remembered their upbringing and chose to be easy on their kids...a very unwise move. What they did not realise is the way he raised them was the reason they had strong work ethics & were business minded individuals..." a fool and his money shall soon part" Not everyone can handle wealth.

annoying music ruins this film

@janetcuca9453

6 жыл бұрын

G. Private h

Imagine that place going up in flames. It’s the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. How generous of those mean, old Uber rich folk!

Those poor "magical fairies"... Called servants...May they get some over due glory now.

@whiteblood9165

5 жыл бұрын

Amen sister ! 😀

@gordonhall752

5 жыл бұрын

who cares?

It's the size of the White House or larger.

where is this at?

@trajan9101

7 жыл бұрын

saw this house man it's ridiculously huge just driving down the street is like WTF !!! giant size mansions everywhere.

@jody024

7 жыл бұрын

Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island

@ARCHIEANGELinOH

6 жыл бұрын

Newport, Rhode Island

@paulastephenson1862

6 жыл бұрын

Newport, Rhode Island

@claudeciancio1933

6 жыл бұрын

Newport, Rhode Island

Where's Anderson Cooper's wing?

@gordonhall752

5 жыл бұрын

His family has nothing (today) to do with The Breakers. His Grandfather Reginald Vanderbilt was not left any part of the house or its furnishings. Instead they went to Reggie's younger sister Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi and the descendants of her five daughters through the Hungarian count.

3:20 why fuck is that door there?

The Rich Vanderbilt's began as farmers on Staten Island. The Family Icon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt died as illiterate as he was as a boy. Read The book, " Fortune's Children, the fall of the house of Vanderbilt " authored by a grandchild of the old man. Better by far than fiction the book is all true, and as with many things stranger than any fiction.

@francismuiruri9064

4 жыл бұрын

I guess most people were illiterate then. The commodore was a smart businessman irrespective his education.

Why does the reporter keep referring to the mansion as "they?" It's an "it."

@knocksensor3203

4 жыл бұрын

Sebastien Sade if it was correction institutions . They will be called “it”. Fine,beautiful mansions are called “They”😁

That awful background so called music makes it hard to understand what is being said. Why do productions use all that freaking background noise.

She be fine.

@johnmac91

6 жыл бұрын

Was thinking that myself.

Illuminati

Yea work them 16 hours a day then give em a cot to sleep on..

@DalV

6 жыл бұрын

bkl 420 for the 1800s those were nice goose feather beds.

@HarrisonJBounel

6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to charge them rent!

@allenatkins2263

4 жыл бұрын

You ever been in the military?

@boom8250

3 жыл бұрын

Shhhh he/him

Never meant to be seen is because it human nature to have a pang of guilt to be waited on hand and foot by the less fortunate. The less you see of them the less guilty you feel.

@Magnetron33

4 жыл бұрын

No! I think it is more ..Oh, look I did all this myself, Isn't that amazing. They literally had an army of invisible assistants.

@Nunofurdambiznez

4 жыл бұрын

pangs of guilt??? hmmmmm.. NO, as one who enjoys being waited on, nope.. no pangs here...

That lady that was talking about the small quarters and about the servants in about the small cramped quarters. She was actually kind of laughing! That s*** ain't funny at all! I'm wealthy and I don't treat my workers like slaves! Actually I pay them to live a very rich life!

@boom8250

3 жыл бұрын

Quite she/her

I toured this house a few years back and didn't care for it at all. The Elms or Rosecliff are both much nicer homes. Marble House was pretty awful as well - too much marble.

@brucemarsico6

4 жыл бұрын

OH DEAR!Well then, you've just dis-invited yourself to any grand affairs to be held in future at Marble House! No Tiffany Ball invitation coming your way!

Impressive, but mostly too excessive for my taste. And paid for by exploited workers - makes it still less attractive.