Newport, R.I.

We stopped in Rhode Island to see the famous Newport mansions. So much fun gawking at the lavishness of the Gilded Age!

The Breakers is the biggest and most ostentatious of the Newport mansions. This was the Vanderbilts' "summer cottage," modeled after an Italian Renaissance palace. It has 70 rooms, including 48 bedrooms.
The music room, decorated in French Baroque style. The room and furnishings were designed and built in France, then shipped to Newport.
The dining room features alabaster columns, chandeliers made of French Baccarat crystal, and fruits, vegetables, snakes, writhing bodies covering the walls. EVERY SINGLE SURFACE was oozing with ornamentation.

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