The Marble House in Autumn

by Mitchell R Grosky

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The Marble House in Autumn

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Mitchell R Grosky

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Photograph - Photograph

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The Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, which is open to the public as a museum run by the Preservation Society of Newport County. It was designed by the society architect Richard Morris Hunt. For an American house, it was unparalleled in design and opulence when it was built. The internet notes that "The mansion was built as a summer cottage retreat between 1888 and 1892 for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt. It was a social landmark that helped spark the transformation of Newport from a relatively relaxed summer colony of wooden houses to the now legendary resort of opulent stone palaces. The fifty-room mansion required a staff of 36 servants, including butlers, maids, coachmen, and footmen. The mansion cost $11 million (nearly 300 million in our dollars) of which $7 million was spent on 500,000 cubic feet of marble. William Vanderbilt's older brother Cornelius Vanderbilt II subsequently built the largest of the Newport cottages, The Breakers, between 1893 and 1895."

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