Like The Breakers, the Marble House was originally owned by the Vanderbilt family. However, unlike its famous counterpart, this grand home was inspired by Versailles' Petit Trianon building and ...

Consuelo with Winston Churchill Size is not everything, of course. For sheer, improbable ostentation, look no further than the Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island. Completed in 1892, it was built ...

But Marble House, the second most visited mansion in Newport, owned by Alva Vanderbilt with a Hunt design, is in a similar class. With 500,000 cubic feet of marble, Tavares says that of the $11 ...

William K. Vanderbilt, first husband of Alva Vanderbilt, even went so far as to run the Cliff Walk through a tunnel behind Marble House. "The cliff walk runs under the lawn in a tunnel ...

The Breakers and Marble House, both designated as National Historic Landmarks and originally built by the Vanderbilt family, will welcome visitors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the final admission ...

Day. The Breakers and Marble House — two national historic landmarks built during the Gilded Age by members of the Vanderbilt family — will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, with last entry at ...