Some long ago i did repairs on a few around. And then some yrs later with no connection from working, i got to be invited to these magnificent homes as a guest. Strange how life is.

I lived in RI 2000-2005. I visited these mansions and was blown away. I'm from Washington state-PNW

I live in Rhode Island, its nice to see my little state. Newport is beautiful the mansions are magnificent. My sister attended Salve Regina University in Newport for nursing ,her classes were at the mansions. I used to skip my classes to go with her and sometimes i could sit in her classes. Its surreal to be in the mansions seeing all the art on the walls, the detail everywhere is beautiful. If u can go, go not only for the mansions but for Thames St in Newport, its 1 of those really long streets with tons of different shops, delicious food, souvenirs, clothing and all sorts of candy. Its a lot of fun. Enjoy.

Yes they are amazing my grandfather worked on so many of those mansions ,He was a master mason glad it’s only a 25 min trip from where I live too. 👍🏼

Much gratitude to the preservation society!!

I've been lucky enough to see all five of the mansion's mentioned. They're beautiful all year round but they're even more beautiful at Christmas time all decorated with the lights & the Christmas trees in pretty much every room. At The Breakers in the lobby they have a giant poinsettia Christmas tree, it's beautiful

Great to see our mansions in Newport R.I. On tv brings back all great memories of Newport, mansion, art, walks through time the streets ,homes, restaurants, docks with beautiful sailboats , the romantic Inns and their beauty spas, tours,fishing ,golfing and more

I have been to Newport and have seen these beautiful grand ladies. Gorgeous!

The Mansions are beautiful ,especially during Christmas. 😊

Now The Gilded Age will drive even more tourism to the area, I am sure. I wonder which season will see Bertha building her Newport estate? When will Gladys become a dollar princess? Will Mrs Astor finally accept them into society?

I grew up in Rhode Island. I never took a mansion tour until I was in my 20s after I married and moved away. 1st time, took a friend who has never been to anywhere in New England. This was in 1990. Went to Marble house and the Breakers. Every time since, when I go to RI to visit family and friends, I always make plans to slumming it in Newport. Last summer my husband went for the 1st time.

Now with the new HBO show The Gilded Age, Newport will be front and center!! I’ve been to Newport and attended dinner at the Breakers when my Son received a award at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Quite a place!!

I live in Warwick love Newport so much 😍♥️

I doubt you could build mansions like this today . The cost would be the biggest prohibiting factor , but would builders have the kind of skills today for this sort of mind blowing architecture . The interiors of these homes are just as opulent and mind blowing as the exteriors of these mega properties . To be honest I don't understand how a family even a large family can live in these monolithic structures . I was reading a book once about the gilded age in America and the robber barons that created that period in American history . Some of these places had upwards of 50 bedrooms , dozens of bathrooms and lounge rooms and living spaces for hec anything you could imagine . These homes magnificent looking as they are, really do epitomize what I can only call obscene wealth . I have often wondered how practical they really were and were people truly happy in them . Who knows , they well could have been .

We loved our visit there. Plenty to do no matter your age and interest.

The Breakers and the Marble mansions I fell in love with when I went to see them. 🥰

I love the way old wooden houses from the XIXth. century have been kept. A piece of history we cannot lose. Thank you.😊

I’m blessed to live here in Newport

You know what’s way more impressive and interesting about all these stunning estates? All the dark horrifying history of the robberbarrons and eugenics

I've done the tour several times. Magnificent homes, the tours were also quite informative.

Was the HBO guilded age filmed over a year ago? It's just now just showing.

Woo Hoo!! Rhode Island! Its so awesome to see my little state!

A Wonderful tour of Newport and the mansions! Not to be missed! A lot more about Alva and Conselo's story in the book 'Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt". Their story beats Downton Abbey!

I love Newport, my Dad was stationed there when I was young and we lived there for a year, Many wonderful memories

Lucky to be able to spent half of mt childhood living in RI and visited the mansions in Newport. Even had a cultural potluck there!

I never knew about the origins of The Whitney museum! I bet 'The Met' regrets turning down that collection today! Wonderful to know!

These mansions are beyond impressive when you see them in person! It totally ruined my view of houses (in a good way)....I now love the opulence that they have. I see now that every inch of a house can be a work of art. The Breakers is my favorite. I bought a ticket to see 5 mansions for about $35... worth every penny!!

I love Newport 🌊

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Can’t wait to visit this September 👌

I saw you guys today while driving up Bellevue Ave during my lunch break. I build and repair gunite swimming pools and do a lot of work in Newport on some very beautiful properties. The Newport mansions are quite spectacular but to me it's the very scenic rugged coastline that is the real charm of the island.

Been to Newport twice. Lovely, historic, charming.

Looks like the US version of mansions from Masterpiece on PBS. Downton Abbey anyone? Hey I love the show and the Mansions. Very Illuminating.

How ironic it is Alva was a driving force in the women's sufferidge movement but forced her daughter into suffering after forcing her to marry a man she did not love.

Evan Smith, President and CEO, Discover Newport, clearly has the talent and expertise for his role, a truly Executive delivery, his personality would allow him the position in any corporate setting, particularly those interested in Public and/or Employee Relations. He adds a very "Newport level" air to the story of this historic island. A worthy documentary on the subject of Newport. Beth Tennessee, USA (a Lynch, and DAR, of the Lynchburg, VA lineage. Not certain of any relation to Nellie Lynch mentioned here, but could be.) Added to my Bucket List.

Amazing. Beautiful. If I had tô chose any mansion I couldn't do it for everyone is só beautiful

My dad was born in Newport and I go up there to visit my cousins and go to the mansions

Truly enjoyable video

The Yacht Restoration School is definitely worth a visit.

I went on a Canada New England cruise I went through the breakers it was beautiful very similar to Meadowbrook mansion in Michigan near my home.

Missed this year. Have gone to New port every July for 20 yrs

Breakers house is so amazing.

fantastic overview. Thank you so much.

I would love to visit Newport.

Truly beautiful stunning will definitely visit

i live in the ocean state, RI. i love my state❤️so many beautiful things🥰

The work is amazing Love it

This video is far more about travel and tourism for Newport then it is about the mansion's found therein

Amazing mansion

Best restaurants in America lmao ok if you say so. Avg at best. But other than that yes Newport is one of the best places to live or visit. It’s like the perfect little hideaway. The sailing here is second to none. The downtown scene is full of activity and things to do and the sunsets are crazy beautiful.

My family are direct descendants of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He's entombed somewhere around there. My wife and I finally visited RI a few years back and didn't even visit the cemetery. Sorry Gramps. I always imagined the bloodline would have made us American royalty if the U.S. was anything other than a democracy. 😊

One thing never/rarely discussed in the house tours is how the New York families travelled up to their cottages: by private rail car, which would be driven directly adjacent (or perhaps even into, I believe that is what I was told?!) the houses to be unloaded of their crockery, silver, plate, grand art works, and of course, all those dresses from Worth!

Oh, my! That is a woman who is totally impressed with herself.

I went there 4 weeks ago

I used to live on the colonial side of Newport, in a merchant's house built before the Revolution. I like that side of Newport better. Of course it's not a grand mansion, it's simply a house, lived in by a family of long standing, pre-Revolutionary war living in the same house, expanding them as their businesses grew. One can see the growth of their fortunes by the heights of their doors!

Guess I'll just smoke a damn newport.

By the way, those other two towns on the island are Portsmouth and Middletown and have their own uniqueness and beauty. Some how Evan forgot to mention their names.

Believe me I will visit

Newport Ocean Drive is A Nice place to Visit, Visited some Female School that had a Fresco was NICE. Rhode Island a Legit State VERY chill👌, More FAMILY orientated but CHILL. Plus I lived next Door to my Weed Man whom I was close friends with.

Difficult to discern if this was a presentation of Newport mansions or a plug for the Preservation Society.

I like the content of these videos but the music is too loud and distracting

@L3WGReacts the USA has castles too.

Alva Smith Vanderbilt was not middle class as the documentary states. She came from a prosperous Mobile family that lost most of the family fortune in the Civil War. The family took what was left of the family money and moved to France after the war. While not on the scale of Marble House her family home on Government Street in Mobile was impressive in its time!

what happened to the families who owned these mansions? so curious!

Interesting !... but far too many ad breaks and ‘’we’ll see’’s that make the video exhausting ! 😆

How they built such an exquisite stone renaissance style mansions without high developed industries, logistics and very well high educated different types of specialties? Its impossible. Does the history lies to us or my eyes and logic?

Why were Americans pretending to be snobby Brits in the Gilded Age? Didn't they fight a war to get rid of this type of thing from America? It has a very Disney princess energy. I do actually love the buildings and find this interesting, btw, I am just commenting. I worked in a country club in Texas and it had revivalist architecture, and fussy patrons, felt gimmicky and cheesy with American accents. I also felt like my clipped New Zealand accent upset them. They said "why are you so formal. You are making the patrons uncomfortable" after giving me endless formal rules to follow. I am glad the rich began patronizing more American art and culture in the 20th century. Porgy and Bess, Norman Rockwell, Grant Wood, Harlem renaissance. Feels more American! More authentic to America's own culture.

i've only done two mansions sigh

This would have been a great interview if only it focused on the homes and their history. Unfortunately, it was nothing but an ad. It was a RI promo.

Awesome as these houses are, they were built on the backs of underpaid workers. It’s hard to forget this.

Okay.

Alva Vanderbilt --> Divorced William, and later became Alva Belmont, Olivers wife.

Red bush 💘 😻 💜 💛 💚

In as much as the history lesson is amazing, the whistling themes backing music makes this video virtually intolerable, for me, at least. I had to seek an alternate source for such information.

Thanks to Christine Baranski for being so wonderfully insufferable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of talking heads. Little time showing the properties. Too bad. Wasted opportunity.

this would have been a good video if it wasnt so repetitive..

"A lifestyle that they loved and a lifestyle at other people´s expense. Servants were very poorly paid. All this wealth could have been put to much better use. Helping people. But the people who built these mansions were only concerned with one thing. Themselves.

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Why are these American super rich not iving still in these Mansons. Why are they owned & run by conservative Companies. Have the owners lost their money

I was very interested in this video and very disappointed. It’s tourism video for travel to Newport not historical stories of these houses. It’s like sitting thru a timeshare pitch.

They are NOT homes: they are HOUSES. As no one lives there any more, they can't be homes.

Not much of a tour.

What

More than half of this doesn’t talk about the mansions!

How many of those were paid for with slaves? (not a cheeky comment, genuinely wondering)

Examples of an age of excesses and different lifestyles. Beautiful but unnecessary. So many people working for a house.

Uh

Probably built with Blood Money... 🙄 Still kinda cute though I guess

Fake show.just an ad

Save your time, it's a commercial

It is Really not tht interesting-new england got nothing on england

Had a beautiful 10 days touring Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Was able to see the many mansions there. Very conspicuous consumption back in their day. It’s a beautiful start.