Richard Morris Hunt designed this 70-room Rhode Island summer home for Cornelius Vanderbilt II
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Vanderbilt houses - Wikipedia  From the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed some of the United States's ... Townhouse, the "Cornelius Vanderbilt II House" (1883) at 1 West 57th Street, New York by George B. Post. ... "The Breakers" in Newport, Rhode Island, in 189295, which was also designed by Richard Morris Hunt [1].
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The Breakers | Newport, RI. Cornelius Vanderbilt II cottage designed ...  ... RI. The Summer "Cottage" designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Cornelius (II) ... The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island - Summer residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt ...... The 70-room mansion has approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2) of living...
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The Breakers | Newport Mansions  Isaac Bell House ... The Commodore's grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became The Breakers ... In 1893, he commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a villa to ... Hunt directed an international team of craftsmen and artisans to create a 70 room Italian Renaissance- style palazzo inspired ... Newport, RI 02840.
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The Breakers - Wikipedia  The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, ... Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt, with interior ... Jr., the 70-room mansion has a gross area of 125,339 square feet and 62,482 ... Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased the grounds in 1885 for $450,000 ($11.9...
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(Richard Morris Hunt, Newport Rhode Island) "The Breakers" a ...  The Breakers ........summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II....newport Rhode Island ...... architect Richard Morris Hunt designed The Breakers, a 70 room Italian...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt - Wikipedia  Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794  January 4, 1877), also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. ... Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertson or Aertszoon ("Aert's son"), was a Dutch farmer from...
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Richard Morris Hunt - Wikipedia  Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827  July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture. Hunt was, according to design critic Paul Goldberger writing in The New ... Hunt became the first American to attend the cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
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Lovell Beach House - Rudolph Schindler | rudolph schindler ...  See more about Beach Houses, International Style and Richard Neutra. ... Designed by architect Rudolph Schindler and completed in 1926, the Lovell Beach House ..... Full-body apparitions have been seen on many occasions; one such ... modern architectural history, the Lovell House was the first steel frame home in the...
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American Vision of Harmony by Rachel Fletcher in the Nexus ...  --Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VII, quoted in "Thoughts on English Prosody" by Thomas ... The third provided public higher education for the common man, while ..... The plans for his Monticello residence and Poplar Forest retreat present ..... Morris's Select Architecture [1973] furnished numerous models and patterns for...
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RI - Newport: The Breakers - Great Hall | The Breakers, the  | Flickr  The Breakers, the Gilded Age summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II at 44 Ochre ... mosaic ceiling and the upper painted to resemble canopies against the sky. ... and gilt cornice which surrounds a ceiling painted to depict a windswept sky.
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jeopardy/310_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  GIFTS FOR EVERYONE | The Mass. Bay Colony named this college for a man who gifted half his 1,600-pound estate & 400 books | Harvard. right: Phil. Wrong:.
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The indulgent world of F. Scott Fitzgerald | New York Post  Jul 18, 2015 ... West Egg  where Jay Gatsby, emblematic of new money, has his ... York City, says historian Paul Mateyunas, author of Long Island's Gold Coast. ... Another possible inspiration, Oheka Castle  with 127 rooms, the second-largest private home in ... The Fitzgeralds only lived in Great Neck for two years.
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Bill Cecil's Biltmore: Telling the family story - Citizen-Times  Feb 18, 2016 ... In Vanderbilt's day, the house would perhaps hold up to 100 people ... Sr. become a tireless advocate for Western North Carolina tourism. ... The elder Cecil wasn't afraid to make some changes, expanding Vanderbilt's agricultural vision. ... In 1985, the Biltmore Winery opened on the estate and has become...
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Nelson W. Aldrich House - Wikipedia  The Nelson W. Aldrich House, also known as the Dr. S. B. Tobey House, is a Federal-style house at 110 Benevolent Street in Providence, Rhode Island that was the home of Nelson W. Aldrich, a U.S. Senator from 1881 to 1911. Aldrich was a dominant and controversial figure in the Senate, exercising ... Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller was named after his grandfather Aldrich.
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vital villa lewaro, making the case for an all-american showplace  Sep 7, 2014 ... 1924: Villa Lewaro, Irvington-0n-Hudson, Walker beauty parlor franchise holders' convention outing. .... Four or five even had swimming pools and tennis courts. ... with the splendor of the nearby Frederick William Vanderbilt estate, or the .... Unlike most mansions on the Hudson, which sit like castles on the...
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Top Ten New York Architecture  The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City .... Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of ... 1902-Richard Morris Hunt designed the central pavilion and the neoclassical facade .... one of the oldest  and one of the most famous  skyscrapers in New York City.
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For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse - The ...  Feb 23, 2012 ... The Connecticut capital is where Wallace Stevens composed many of his verses while ... foot between his comfortable house and his office at an insurance company. ... Hartford is the place where the poet Wallace Stevens spent a ... American Years, two of the greatest characters in American fiction  Tom...
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What to See in Rhode Island | Sygic Travel  Pick the best sights and create your daily travel itinerary. ... Three miles long walkway along Newport's most lavish mansions. ... Visit the mansions built by the most renowned architects for America's social financial and elite. ... These towers are what's left of the 19th century Narragansett Pier Casino ... Flying Horse Carousel.
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Bogart - The New York Times  In the last summer of the nineteenth century, Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart bought ... Point, was a little more than halfway down the sixteen-mile-long lake--a secluded ... It was a secure, prosperous, homogeneous world, staunchly Republican, ..... His studied cool and his occasional bouts of moodiness, when he would go off...
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The Elms Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island | New England Living ...  New England Living: The Elms | Newport Mansion Series ..... Newport rurais, newport cottages, newport mansion, velouette's house, marble house vanderbilt,...
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"Beacon Hill House" is one of the more odd cottages in Newport RI ...  "Beacon Hill House" was built for millionaire Arthur Curtiss James and his wife, ... Mrs. James hosted a famous party titled Masque of The Blue Garden, held in ..... PBS> TREASURES of NEW YORK Gold Coast Mansions Preview Journey ... Marble House | Entrance Hall of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's Newport, RI, "Cottage".