"GOOD CONTENT"#architecture#castle Tour Rough Point, The Breakers, Marble House, The Elms and Chateau Sur Mer. Each has a rich history, so take about 20 minutes and visit each mansion. It's your quiet and unhurried tour - a private tour - of some of the most beautiful mansions in the world. Mansions are located in Newport, Rhode Island. YOUTUBE COPYRIGHT NOTE: I own full rights throughout the world in perpetuity to the various symphonic music tracks used in this video ("Mendelssohn Opus 12", "Mozart Minuet Violin", Tchaikovsky Quartet 1". "Cello" and so on) via my purchases in 2001 from the music library of Digital Juice. I purchased Digital Juice's RockTraxx and Rock Staxx libraries - containing this music track and many other music tracks for use in advertising, industrial films, travel videos and so on. I own full rights to this music. See digitaljuice.com for more information. Digital Juice then and now - warrants and promotes "royalty free" and "unlimited use" for purchases of their music tracks from their library. No other entity may declare exclusive ownership, license rights or demand fees for the above music.
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This video provides a guided tour of the five most impressive historic mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, highlighting the architectural grandeur and the wealthy families, such as the Vanderbilts, who built these \"summer cottages\" during the Gilded Age.
We're in Newport, Rhode Island today touring some of the most beautiful mansions in the world.
Here are the top five most impressive Newport mansions. Number one, Rough Point, the Doris
Duke Estate. Number two, The Breakers, original owner, Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Number three,
Marble House, owned by his little brother, William Vanderbilt. Number four is The Elms,
and number five, Chateau Surmer. So settle back and relax as we go on a tour of each
beautiful mansion. I'm at Rough Point in Newport, Rhode Island today,
and this is my favorite of the mansions here in Newport. It's the Doris Duke Estate.
I'm at The Breakers today in Newport, Rhode Island. The Breakers is the most famous of
Newport, Rhode Island's summer mansions. Back in the day, they called them cottages.
And this one was owned by the Vanderbilt family, and it attested to their social and financial
preeminence back at the turn of the century.
Marble House was built between 1888 and 1892 for Mr. and Mrs. William Vanderbilt. He is the
grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt. This was a summer cottage, as Newport residents like to
call these great mansions. This is William Vanderbilt, and that's his wife, Alva.
They had three children, Consuelo, William Jr., and of course this guy right here, Harold,
one of the finest yachtsmen of his era, a guy who successfully defended the America's Cup three times.
Marble House was designed by the famous architect Richard Morris Hunt,
and was inspired by Petit Trianon at Versailles.
And in case you were wondering, yes, there is a lot of marble here at Marble House.
To be precise, there are over 500,000 cubic feet of marble here in Marble House.
By the way, William Vanderbilt's older brother, Cornelius II, built the Breakers two years after
the completion of Marble House. And the location, just down the street. This is the Chinese Tea
House, and it overlooks the ocean. E. Elms in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer residence
of Edward Julius Berwyn, who made his fortune in the coal industry. Back in 1898, Berwyn engaged
Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer to design a home modeled after a mid-18th century French
chateau outside of Paris, France. Construction of the Elms was completed in 1901.
Newport's Chateau Sur Mer is a landmark of high Victorian architecture, and furniture,
and wallpaper, and ceramics, and stenciling. It was the most palatial residence in Newport
from its completion back in 1852 until the appearance of the Vanderbilt Newport Mansions
in the 1890s. Chateau Sur Mer was built by George Peabody Wetmore, who had a very
distinguished political career as the Governor of Rhode Island, as well as a U.S. Senator.
I hope you enjoyed your private tour of my favorite Top 5 Newport Mansions.
