Those copper pots alone are worth more than my house.

The mansions in Newport, Rhode Island are definitely worth the trip.

To think that this is their "beach cottage" where they would retreat from the city for rest and relaxation. Those interiors would not let me relax as I would be constantly obsessing over all the dust.

Simply astonishing 🙏🏼! Just to think that today they build $100million dollar homes that cannot hold a candle to this beautiful mansions.

Oh the dusting ! It must be endless. Beautiful home.

What a stunning home. All of them are. Just beautiful. The quality, the craftsmanship, the detailing is magnificent

Thank's to share. I think it's was a great tour. Visiting a place like this. Despites being home to an upper class family , it's remarcable! The Vanderbilt family was one of those that built América and changed The XX century. Thank's. Hughs from Brasil

I thought the same thing about dust. Just mowing the lawn looks like a full time job. The reason most of these beautiful palaces were knocked down is no one can afford the upkeep or taxes.

when you get to the music room take a good look at the piano. It’s a Steinway...surprise. I donated an Identical one to the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, mine was built in 1886 and this ones from that era as well. Model C Parlor Grand.

i toured the house in the mid 90's and it took my breath away. The other Vanderbilts homes, like the Marble House is stunning as well. The Hammersmith house, Jacqueline Kennedy's childhood summer house was very homey - I think I read somewhere that they don't have that open to the public anymore.

Such unimaginable WEALTH!!!!💰💰💰💰💰

I read that Mrs. Vanderbilt herself went to Italy and Paris to pick out the Marble, Chandeliers and Furnishings.

That human beings can even conceive of such ornate and complicated decoration is amazing.

Very nice video-killer house.

Sublime.

I can’t imagine living that life. Just amazing

I am gkad that these magnificent mansions are both preserved and on display. They represent the height of architecture and structural beauty. Thank you for the videis

Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt II was literally extremely rich, wow.

the coolest house!!

They shouldn't have torn down the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue. Bergdorf could have repurposed the mansion for their store instead of tearing it down.

Thank you for sharing this video. I love visiting the palaces of the aristocracy here in Europe and seeing clips of the gilded age mansions, which one day I hope to visit in person. I thoroughly enjoyed your tour

My entire house would easily fit inside the Great Hall with lots of room to spare.

I'm from RI and visited this many times ! The grandeur and beauty of construction is amazing ! if I'm not mistaken 4000 masons from Ireland came to work on this.

Great tour of a beautiful home. Thank you!

Very nice casual tour of an American architectural masterpiece. The Breakers is constructed and furnished with more opulent materials than the public rooms at Buckingham Palace.

Nice, abit brief tour. LOVED the piano music started at the music room!

Magnificent!

Really Fascinating, I try to envision how the beautiful seasons would havd been in Such a Beautiful home an the ocean views, so tranquill, Enjoyed the home tour Mary Canada 🍀🍁

Just visited for the first time this week and I loved it.

Thank you for this great tour and information for those of us that can't go there.

This kind of living is a Ball-Breaker today! People have changed and even have contempt for this kind of materialistic excess and decadence. 38 years ago, I took a tour to the mansions in Newport and I caught mansionites. I got so sick of it. Then I heard of all the super rich long ago that took their lives in this most affluent area.

Well done. Thanks.

That is cool

Beautifully filmed! There is amazing family history contained in that home, all told in the book FORTUNE'S CHILDREN: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VANDERBILT. "Downton Abbey" worthy story!

The music room's walls are leafed in platinum! I also like that the bathtubs have hot and cold fresh water and H & C salt water. The original Breakers burned due to a boiler malfunction: The boiler for this "cottage" in under the gatekeeper's house with pipes to the main house. Guess the gatekeeper was expendable.

That entrance hall screams, I have more money than you, and you, and you, and you... So take that Carnegie, Rockefeller, DuPont, Morgan, Ford...Vanderbilt's WIN!!!

That was a nice presentation.👍

Outstanding video. Thank you so much for sharing.

Despite the over the top opulence, I found it warm and inviting,

Thanks from all of us who can’t get to these beautiful properties ourselves. Nice video.

Good job on the video, what a summer home!

SEVENTY THREE Servants? Wow!

The gilded age was part of US history like it or not. There are people today that have as much or more wealth. Times change constantly so hating on these people doesn’t help. Money only cushioned the bumps but doesn’t guarantee health or happiness.

The building's symmetry makes this a standout amoing other 19th century megamansions like Waddesdon and Biltmore.

I highly recommend the book "The Myth of the Robber Barons" to get insight into these great men of industry.

Beautiful

Lovely video! thank you so much!an amazing look into one of the wealthiest families home,makes me curious about the servants and how thy lived,maybe another video?

Very nice video. Thank you! While I admired the wonderful craftsmanship, some of the rooms, especially the public ones, were over-the-top and just vulgar, typical of the late 19th century when the new rich wanted to show off their wealth. Regards.

Actually there a family living spaces on the third floor (bedrooms and sitting room) as well servants’ rooms. The mansion, prior to being purchased, leased to the Preservation Society and the Vanderbilt descendants used the third floor as living quarters.

The only thing old enough in my home for that house is probably my great great great grandmother’s Irish tea cup set

Thank you for the video.

The Great Gatsby movie with Robert Redford. My favorite house.

Watch the series “The Men Who Built America”, believe it’s 4 episodes each 1 hour long. Amazing! The Vanderbilts, for whom these homes belong, is the subject of the first episode.

Very nice 😀

That was a very nice tour!😄

Awesome video thanks so much

A house for the wealthy before income taxes. Many people today would be satisfied with a small house and today's technology.

That bathtub is stunning in her Master. Interesting, the servants quarters were on the upper level.

I am hoping that the mansions reopen soon they are truly beautiful I live in newport and I have never known them to be closed to the public so sad

The place employed a lot of people. Making the money go around is good

I love the way you move your camera. So soothing

I went there back in October 2018, and I have to tell you, seeing it up close, you get that WOW! factor. It was unbelievable when you see it up close. Pictures and other videos just doesn't do it justice. You have to see this in person like I did.

Great video! Thanks for sharing

very interesting look at a by-gone era!

Es maravillosa

We lived in Newport in '94-'95. The tours were all guided. I am gathering they are recorded now? I have also heard they offer servants tours now, that would be very interesting! Thank for you these videos, I am enjoying seeing the mansions again!

I love Newport !

Wow, his summer cottage is better than my normal house

Constructed in an amount of time that can not be acheived today.

Nice cottage.

So crazy that all that opulence and no toilets. Definitely a bygone era. Incredible.

Please sell me on how🧐? Next text! Like all those before! Beautiful ❤️ Outstanding Architects will never forget.

Wonderful video! I toured the Breakers around 2010 and, in spite of the magnificent antiques and structure, I found it a bit weathered looking. I suppose the maintenance costs of these places prevents the state from really keeping them pristine. Still, the mansion was breathtaking.

It would be a full time job just keeping the fires stoked in all of the fireplaces.

I toured this house back in the 80’s. While parts are impressive, I remember being disappointed how gaudy some rooms are. Sign of the times.

More mansion tours please!!

To think the property tax on this mansion back in the 20's was over $80k a year... (I wonder does part of the family still live on the 3rd floor as part of the agreement, when the Breaker was donated?) Their NYC mansion was $150k a year. Even with what the trust fund left his wife which was $250k a year she still couldn't afford the NYC mansion, which employed 22 people to maintain. Cornelius spent over $20 million buying up the properties around him to make the mansion what it was, to only have developers buy it all back for a little over $7 million.

I love Newport. Toured The Breakers several times. I must say I simply dont recall seeing the safe for the Silver? 🍴 🤔

Would be interesting to see how much it would cost to clone excluding the fancy furniture and fittings, I reckon £5-12 million pounds for the reinforced concrete frame, then maybe 200k-500k for the staircase, couple of million pounds for the windows basic structure for £20 million pounds uk 🇬🇧 plus god knows how much for decorating inside plus gardens.

I wonder what their breakfast, lunch, and dinner foods were. What was the normal meal comprised of?

I have been to the Breakers, so I know that this video was too short to really show how grand the Breakers really is.

It reminds me of downton abbey in ways

They intentionally used the term "cottage" as a big fat joke back in the day.

I wish I lived there

great tour - so interesting to see proof that money cannot buy taste !

Too many dark and cluttered rooms in a setting that should be more airy. By far the largest cook stove I've ever seen.

How many after watching this looked around your own house In stark comparisonLOL

It’s cool to see Vanderbilt’s modest little summer retreat. The running water in the entrance hall is so relaxing! (I could wish visitors didn’t wear awful shorts…kind of ruins the gilded age vibe!)

Why are houses like these not called castles. And what defines a castle vs a mansion?

In my personal Perspective . Don Shula had the Exit of a Knighted Englishman ........ This Guy ,, gifted with Opulence ,, passed on as well , ---------------------------------------------------------------- Both Forgotten in the infinite Sands of Time .....

Amazing and beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Please research “mud flood” and Tartarian topics. This is definitely an old world building!

Get the feeling the “cottage” is haunted.

Was Josiah Wedgwood involved in the decor?

I wanted t9 see the servants quarters. The interior is much like the English manor homes.

The owners of the Breakers & Marble House in Newport were brothers and sons of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The wives hated each other and were always trying to “out-do” one another. The original Breakers house was made of wood and burnt down and was rebuilt by the Vanderbilt’s with this home. Marble House was a gift to Alva Vanderbilt from her husband. She eventually divorced him and married the man down the street, Oliver Hazard Belmont. He owned a gothic mansion down the road from Marble House in Newport. Alva remained owner of Marble House after the divorce and used the home to host suffrage meetings for women’s Right To Vote. Amazing history in Newport. Bellevue Avenue in Newport is like going back in time.

I would like to apply for Second Footman. I'm a good worker and I have excellent references from Lord Grantham.

It's funny how gaudy, and overly busy the sensibility was. Intricate + more intricate = wealth. In the late 19th century that was the shit. Also, looks like some of the decor out of Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Wow. They had to lock up the silverware? That's odd.

This gonna be on escape the night s5

anyone else came here cuz of gwelle?