In Downton Abbey Martha Levinson says she has a cottage in Newport. I think these cottages would compete quite successfully with Downton. Even Carson might be impressed.

I've been to Doris Duke Mansion in Newport RI. The mansion is so big, beautiful and elegant.

I love this video and use it every year in my US History class to introduce my students to some of the grandeur of the Gilded Age. Please don't ever take it down 🙂

There are some great stories behind the mansions in the book "Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt." As riveting as a novel!

I lived in Newport as a kid, and definitely worth visiting......IMO...

Be sure to take in the Cliff Walk. It runs along the front of many of the cottages and is free.

@brendanxzavier3649

2 жыл бұрын

I know it is kinda off topic but does anyone know a good place to watch new tv shows online?

@shepherdconor9565

2 жыл бұрын

@Brendan Xzavier Flixportal xD

@brendanxzavier3649

2 жыл бұрын

@Shepherd Conor Thanks, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I really appreciate it !!

@shepherdconor9565

2 жыл бұрын

@Brendan Xzavier you are welcome =)

Very interesting, I love all the old homes big and small just subscribed. Thank you

my beautiful state....

Love the Breakers!

Thank you, very insightful information [thumbs up!]

A good book to find out what life was really like back then is FORTUNE'S CHILDREN: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VANDERBILT. Some amazing stories of a different age!

She mentions some of the Colonial homes which date back to the "16th and 17th centuries." I think she means 1600's and 1700's. "16th century" would be 1500's, well before the 1620 settling of Plymouth Colony.

@unconditionalbs

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I noticed that, too.

@wmperkins25

5 жыл бұрын

I caught that too, thanks for the correction -

@guilfordcigarman

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, I caught that, also

@markstanley2758

4 жыл бұрын

Newport was first settled in 1639. It is less than 60 miles from Plymouth, MA which was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620. Newport was an important commercial port and was in 1750 the fourth most populous settlement in the 13 colonies. The city experienced a decline during the two wars with Great Britain as it was occupied by British troops which resulted in many residents fleeing. It to this day still has many colonial era structures and in around its center by its port. Its weathly enclave of summer homes along Bellevue Avenue came during the mid to late 1800's. These continued to be used by America's elite well into the 1920's. The introduction of new federal taxes and stock market crash of 1929 eventually forced many to abandon these mansions due to the enormous costs of upkeep and inheritance taxes.

AMAZING. 👑

Thanks learned some new things

Thanks for the upload ,

Nice video review of some of the highlights of my hometown. Thank you!

lovely video

Very Informative

Utterly amazing cottage! lol

I like how she said 'tiny homes'. Yeah right.

We lived in Maine all was tethered was beautifully rocks along the shore fresh lobster and don't forget the GHOST.

Today is January 3rd, 2021. Anyone have this pop up in their recommendations?? I live in Rhode Island so I love these videos!

Astors' Beechwood Mansion not open any longer, now owned by Larry Ellison... big sign says "privately owned."

@pamelamcfadden337

4 жыл бұрын

It was always " privately owned" by my friend Lacie..she allowed tours .

Josh and Chuck’s from stuff you should know podcast lead me here🤠 Robber Barons!

For the amazing stories behind these incredible mansions, see the book "Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt", a good read!

@pjhey947

3 жыл бұрын

Read the book years ago! Very good book 😀

Visited the two Mansions last year, beautifull architecture! Anyone know if there was any movies made on the Vanderbilts?

@Meshel1218

3 жыл бұрын

Neil Chartier Watch “The Men Who Built America”. It’s a 4 part documentary (1 hour each episode). The 1st one is on the Vanderbilt’s.

Actually, Doris Duke and her ' Newport Restoration Foundation " saved many, many Colonial era homes. The Newport Preservation Society was and is about the Mansions and grinding out a tourist buck.

I love the breakers.

In the late 60's and very early 70's I would watch the TV series "Dark Shadows" and when Collinwood Manor was shown the house used was one of the Newport mansions. I think the house is called Seacliff Manor or something close to that. The house was used as a school the was even used for filming a pornographic movie. A number of years ago I heard that some restoration work was being done on the mansion. Do any other viewers know what the latest is on this beautiful house and if it is open to the public?

@pamelamcfadden337

4 жыл бұрын

Yes..It is on Ocean Drive .

@adrastos761

Жыл бұрын

seaview terrace, or the carey mansion. still looks like it is decaying, sadly.

You should have mentioned Cliffwalk. The most amazing walk in America.

My niece is a cop in Newport. LOL

The interesting thing is much of the furnishings in some of these homes were stolen from the plantations of the South during and after the Civil War. The tour guide noted that one of the mansions was later purchased by a New Orleans attorney who retrieved his family furniture that was stolen.

I feel like it would take weeks to see it all.

*been there done that*

THE VANDERBUILTS BELIEVED IN PRIVATE PROPERTY BUT, MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, WE KNOW WHO THIS PROPERTY REALLY BELONGS TO DURING TAX TIME.

I've been inside the breakers

@roxievert7806

6 жыл бұрын

The Breakers, sir.

Been there

@reeselynn5262

6 жыл бұрын

ABSTER 0206 I live their

First snapshots are Doris Duke place, I think, her more delicious property is Shangri-la in Hawaii and the guys who built the breakers+marble house got around 50 million each in the will in1888 not much to do with the CEO job, Alice Vanderbilt was furious with the size of the breakers but it had to be for entertaining large numbers of people

Its A shame that houses like these that were bulldozed or torn down, that had some great architecture n design., that nothing was saved. N it happened to great houses like these all over the USA. Converted to a shopping mall or apartments. 😔😞

@pamelamcfadden337

4 жыл бұрын

Doris Duke founded the Restoration Foundation of Newport and saved many colonial homes in Newport.

Noo! The Newport police are not like that. Maybe you had a bad experience with one of the few. I am from Puerto Rico and when my relatives and friends come to visit RI I always take them to Newport, and never had any problems with the police

@Simba______

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Acevedo ~ You're deluded. The Newport police are some of the most evil police in the entire country. Believe me I know. I have had first-hand experience with them. They are evil.

I like how she said you could only do 1 or 2 a day. I've done 5 in a day. 😂.

@marytaylor144

5 жыл бұрын

Certainly you have done 5 in one day. However, I prefer to STUDY the beauty and architecture of the homes. That takes time.

@misstrKevin

4 жыл бұрын

Wow you’re so cool. If you were to pay attention she said it takes time to really appreciate each house.

i have a house on the island. such a fun town

Will re-post on www.tommcge.com: Note: NO PROFITS are being made by this site.

Cottages!..Bahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Which houses on The Point (or any non-Spanish colonized parts of the U.S.) date from the 1500's (16th century)?

Wrong the breakers is not 65000 square feet it's over 138,000 square feet

this one costed 12 million back then, what school u go to?

@roxievert7806

6 жыл бұрын

Al Cohalic well, Al, whatever school you went to didn't teach you the past tense of went.... I

@unconditionalbs

5 жыл бұрын

The same one you did, apparently! haha! ;-P

My mom had a 63 Newport.

Looks like Elysium but on terra firma...Lol

It should be noted, these homes are uninhabitable. Tourism is all that's spared them from the wrecking ball.

@Caterpillarjon

5 жыл бұрын

What makes them uninhabitable? Is it lack of modern electrical wiring, or that they have other structural issues, just curious.

@metricageomocule7830

5 жыл бұрын

Well, they are habitable, a lack of modern conveniences does not automatically render a building uninhabitable. That said, I'm pretty sure that the Newport houses were advanced for the time.

@tamaracarter1836

4 жыл бұрын

Well especially England (but also the rest of Europe), families still live in homes much larger and older than these. For example even medieval castles, that are generally between 800-1000 years old, and are fine to live in - so I’m sure these houses (built around 1900) are inhabitable.

aaand then the great depression happened

@AUTOPSY666

6 жыл бұрын

Property taxes, also.

@metricageomocule7830

5 жыл бұрын

A bigger blow was progressivism and the astronomical income taxes and property taxes that came with it.

i get drunk in Newport almost every weekend lol

They died without their money dear...you should ask of their souls and where they could be now

The most amazing treasures Newport, R.I. had to offer was and is The Cowsills!!!

I can't even fathom the kind of money it would take to build these "cottages" and maintain them. While these summer homes are beautiful there's also something obscene about this display of wealth... like they were trying way too hard to outdo one another.

I look at these cottages and am always reminded of all the kids forced to work in the owners textile mills,starving,horrific workplace accidents,poor wages,long work days.all those lives lost so the owners could spend 1 month out of 12 there

Really annoying the way you were laughing throughout the whole thing...about the “cottages”....the “viewing public”...”the shortage of servants”... Just let people enjoy the beauty without your judgements....and making fun of the owners, Newport society and that life..

"Gains-boro" Heh heh heh, That wuz that painterist guy, Rite ?

HowStuffWorks is the wrong name for this channel. I was expecting to see the secret passages or how the staff kept the home functioning, not a list of things to do while in Newport.

"This one costed...." please, listen to yourself.

my mom was friends with the vanderbilts

@livinginri

6 жыл бұрын

Really?

@Simba______

6 жыл бұрын

Wiley Bahr ~ Yeah, right.

@mattbullignton3754

5 жыл бұрын

MABY THERE DESCENTS

@viviansimpson7241

5 жыл бұрын

Your moms over a hundred years old??? Wow. I highly doubt its any who lived in these homes.

@babyroses12

5 жыл бұрын

@@viviansimpson7241 Anderson Cooper spent time there as a boy, his mom was Gloria Vanderbilt who just passed away at the age of 95. RIP Gloria 💖

Creepy LOOKING

Por favor en espanol.

@pamelamcfadden337

4 жыл бұрын

Please learn English.

I cannot stand listening to those two.

@raeshelmcleod307

5 жыл бұрын

I think... first 2 minutes ow we don’t need to worry about money omg

@corbittgenter

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

I smoke Newports if that matters

Rallies for women's rights in her teahouse outside her mansion.... okay....

lol are you really in the "land of the free?. I dont think so! hahaha

@metricageomocule7830

5 жыл бұрын

Well, it maybe was the land of the free, but with the endless regulations and beaurocracy on everything, taxes and militarized law enforcement, it's no longer the land of the free!

Women’s rights see ya

.................. yawn .........................

Costed? Terrible narration.

Trump bought Breakers 😂, turn the third floor into hotel rooms

@pamelamcfadden337

4 жыл бұрын

Are you alright? Find something to do

Monuments to slavery.

@patrickm7754

7 жыл бұрын

milehisoul boo fucking hoo. Bad shit happens. Are we going to hold onto the past forever?

@DalV

6 жыл бұрын

You’re wrong. My family never owned slaves. My gr-gr grandfather built his empire by creating a business where there was a demand. The United States is the only country where a poor immigrant could become a millionaire through hard work.

@camman6912

6 жыл бұрын

Always someone bringing that shit up on these videos

@lindaystes8454

6 жыл бұрын

Have ever heard of the Ashanti tribe from Ghanda?The story of a man from N.Y. state who owned bought a slave for himself and he was a black man. A childhood family moved to a big house bulit in 1864 and the man that built would help slaves hide in the house and he was a white. man.There is slavery of some kind around the world still...Whites were enslaved too...I have a beautiful biracial family and I found out I have a small percentage of African blood from ancestors that were Moors...Yes it was horrible but we should stop blaming a whole race a lot didnt own a slave ever and werent even here yet.

@bethg.8033

6 жыл бұрын

milehisoul Stupid comment. Black racist.

not impressed

I must have bad taste but I find these houses tacky

@tamaracarter1836

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree, they are basically “copies” of older European styles. When you directly copy a style of architecture (especially from an earlier age/ different country), it instantly becomes a pastiche - not always a bad thing; but extremely hard to get right. This is of course not only limited to the US, Europe also has many examples: one that comes to mind for me being “The Royal Pavillion, Brighton” (built 1787-1823); a brash combination of different Asian architectural styles! These buildings in Newport are very similar, though not quite as tacky, due to the fact they are “poorer” quality imitations. *Note: they are not of “poor” quality, but it would be impossible for these houses (built around 1900), to be of the same quality as a house/ palace expertly crafted in the 1600’s-1700’s. However, most architectural styles are in some way inspired by those that came before. Take the Renaissance for instance; the classical architecture was directly inspired by ancient Roman and Greek buildings, but the key difference here is that it was just that an “inspiration” - not a direct “reproduction”. So buildings possessed “elements” of ancient architecture: columns, symmetry, entablature etc - that were then utilised in a different way. For example structurally important aspects of Roman architecture e.g columns, were often used as decoration; like those at Castle Howard (built 1699-1799) - showing “reinterpretation.” These buildings had an architectural style of their own and from this came many other styles, like Baroque (Castle Howard is actually English Baroque). If they had tried to construct buildings “exactly” like their predecessors, ultimately they could never attain the same quality as an original 2000 years ago. I hope this makes sense. I am simply trying to explain the reasoning behind “why” buildings like this can be referred to as “tacky” - yet this doesn’t mean they cannot still be beautiful! I do not write this with any malice, as I love the US, a country that has has incredible architecture in its own right.

Stupid