A Closer Look: The Breakers Newport’s Gilded Age Mansion | Cultured Elegance

A Closer Look: The Breakers Newport’s Gilded Age Mansion | Cultured Elegance
In this video, we will explore inside the Vanderbilt’s Newport mansion called the Breakers. Together let’s travel back in time as we tour Cornelius and Alice Vanderbilt’s mansion.
Location: Newport, Rhode Island
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[@paco7992]

It's nice that they just stuck with the basics for the vacation house. Too many people overdue it in their second homes. This one seems only slightly above the grass hut in a tropical locale. 😂

[@CulturedElegance]

😂😂😂😂

[@marciafallon7653]

😂

[@nickyzhu2011]

Honestly love how they’re so rich and they decide to built such a humble little cottage for small family get togethers in the country ☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@4eversunnyst.petersburg244]

I toured this estate and it is magnificent. I love the architecture and layout of the rooms. Beautifully furnished a nice historical estate.

[@Periwinklelee1130]

I hope that our architects and structural engineers will study these types of buildings. These buildings have gone thru the test of time, and yet they're still standing. So I'm sure the materials used were not substandard. This is why it's important to preserve these historical buildings, not just the Vanderbilt homes, but all across the world who holds significant value that the future generation will benefit from. May they learn from it, or apply it in their endeavors.

[@aimeefriedman822]

I've been to all the mansions a plethora of times. I'm awestruck at the detail of EACH ROOM, EACH CORNER. WHAT MIND WORK AS WELL AS CRAFTMANSHIP

[@michellesilver2218]

Beautiful place. Toured it in 2010. Just unbelievable

[@CulturedElegance]

wow that is incredible!!

[@Henrythearcher13]

Thats my favorite house ever ❤ the billiard room also appears on The Gilded Age as the Russell's House 😊

[@BFFBuddyFionaandFriends]

Thank you for the excellent video. I particularly liked the presentation because it was like going on a tour.

[@CulturedElegance]

Aw thank you! So glad you enjoyed it

[@apothk9549]

Been there! The bathrooms featured fresh and salt water which I thought was pretty amazing for that time. I even climbed the rocks at the shore and got kissed by a wave 😄🌊

[@tamieckert4548]

“Perfect Account” of the “Breaker’s Mansion” Thank you for your beautiful videos❤🥰✅👏👏💐

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank YOU Tami!!! Your comment means a lot!❤️🤗💓

[@tamieckert4548]

@@CulturedElegance My pleaser!

[@petrofilmeurope]

That's what I mean, you could do it - blend people's background with history and timely elegance. Good work. Thank you.

[@CulturedElegance]

So glad you like my work!! It means the world!

[@petrofilmeurope]

@@CulturedElegance I have one input for you which you can look into. It's the audio. Your voice - or actually the strength in the audio - is somewhat weak. Thus, to hear your voice I have to push the audio level on your film high up, as well as the audio level on my PC. When you edit your video, push up the output audio level. Or if your audio is too week, you can also boost it via an audio enhancer. Not much, just a tad. You can do an audio test in edit before you make your final program. Cheers 🙂

[@tangerineblossom7478]

I can't believe this only took two years to build

[@CulturedElegance]

I agree

[@PermenBoba-dq3jb]

money 😂🎉🎉 lots of it

[@mareklis5046]

Was the technology realy so advanced to build such a mansion in two years? Today it would take much more than two years...

[@PermenBoba-dq3jb]

@@mareklis5046 it take more than 2 years but cost 100x less..... which is the goal

[@PermenBoba-dq3jb]

@@mareklis5046 you genuinely think we can't use our technology to make building faster 🤣 with enough money anything is possible

[@LJB103]

Let's kick it up a notch: the silver panels in the morning room are actually platinum! For scale: the human figures in the arches over the dining room windows are 6' tall. When I first went to the Breakers, you went up and down the grand staircase; now everyone uses the "back" stairs. At the mansion's centennial celebration, Countess Szapary (her mother inherited the mansion) talked about sledding down the grand stairs on a silver tray as a child. The bathrooms have hot and cold running water - both fresh water and salt water. I do suspect that his brother George's house, Biltmore, could give the Breakers competition for summing up the Gilded Age

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you for this wonderful commentary! How did you enjoy the video?

[@LJB103]

@@CulturedElegance An excellent video: well crafted and informative.

[@CulturedElegance]

So glad you enjoyed!! What a great story about Countess Szapary sledding down the grand stairs on a silver tray as a child!!

[@MeMyselfAndUs903]

How do you know the panels are platinum?

[@LJB103]

@@MeMyselfAndUs903 That was discovered when the rooms (Music Room and Morning Room) were undergoing cleaning and restoration a number of years ago. It was then mentioned during tours.

[@CulturedElegance]

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[@SylvieMoon]

amazing that human beings made such stunning buildings like this one

[@CulturedElegance]

Very true!

[@MeMyselfAndUs903]

Your comment made me think about the difference between that era’s contractors compared to the contractors of this era (my impression nowadays of contractors: unreliable, inefficient, ineffective). But that opinion is wrong if today’s contractors are designing and working for customers with power and prestige enough to make an impression enough for referrals to create prestige for themselves.

[@alex0589]

Building this in only two years is insane. Imagine how many people it took, skilled workers, importing, shipping, designing, sculpting, building, gilding. Bonkers. It should be called The Bonkers.

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

Stunning house, I just can’t believe they used the morning room sometimes when it wasn’t morning 😒

[@susanjoseph2380]

This old home is simply magnificent

[@MICCHAN12199]

日本の家がうさぎ小屋と言われるのが分かる広さと豪華さですね😄 目の保養になります😄👍😅

[@arslongavitabrevis5136]

Very nicely done. I appreciate the use of plans to give us a clear picture of the mansion and its rooms. I just found out that the 7.000.000 dollars that Cornelius Vanderbilt II spent in the house would be worth today 270.500.000. I have to say that the description of the Music Room´s decoration as "not too overwhelming" is one of the most ironic I have ever heard. 😁😁The place is "over the top" as it was common in that era of vulgar extravagance. Thank you very much for the video. Regards.

[@portuguesemimi5988]

My favorite mansion in Newport 😍❤️

[@raebean6018]

That's so cool. Thank you. There's nothing like it here in Australia ❤

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you for watching and for your lovely comment!❤️🥰

[@traceyyeoman8391]

Thank you so much love this channel 💗 ❤️

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you Tracey!!! That means so much!!❤️⚜️🥰

[@paolorossi9180]

So beautiful,bellissimo.Greetings from Rome

[@ShearedJoy]

Spectacular

[@tamieckert4548]

Esthetically love every element of the work put into every nook and cranny and it’s laborers always had plenty of work done on the solid structure on a solid foundation. If beautifying all homes for everyone to their way they wanted could be achieved, in that it doesn’t have to be exact expensive materials but good enough to be strong enough, I believe it could be achieved. Then there would be less idle time for people to squawk about differences, or so much competition in getting things accomplished. Everyone would be busy. And it’s not necessary to have a thousand acres when 5 to 20 is sufficient, unless you’re just keeping property to sell for industrial plans. Some industrial parks can be smaller,depending on their designs.

[@exeterline1930]

It was designed to catch the breeze coming off the ocean into the balcony and go up throughout the entire house.

[@aprillacey8125]

Beautiful

[@Kevin-wj4ed]

Craftsmanship!!!!!!!!

[@EastMontana1]

You should start these videos telling us the location of these places in the U. S. All info is fantastic but people might want to go visit them… 👍

[@williamkazak469]

My favorite house is The Breakers. Loved it since The Great Gatsby movie.

[@hightops77]

That front gate almost looks like the gate in the movie “ eyes wide shut” that Tom Cruise gets handed an envelope through. In fact other places look like it came from the same movie .

[@dadsafrantic]

I spent some childhood times at the folger estate when I was a little kid. A smaller but no less amazing place in woodside California in the redwoods.

[@Richardsonprincess00]

Instead of the Breaker's house, there's the marble house where another Vanderbilt lived.

[@CulturedElegance]

That is correct I will talk about that one soon!

[@whome1299]

That is breathtakingly beautiful. OMG. 😍🤩😍🤩😍 #MouthAgape

[@mikejohnson9118]

No mention of the Chinese Tea House?

[@joeslish-p1p]

very nice visited the place once somewhat smaller than the place i live now as if

[@marciafallon7653]

I’m speechless.

[@lkuffer]

Love your videos! Thanks so much for your creative work. (One hopefully constructive comment: wrought iron isn't "carved" - it's wrought.)

[@rgriffith6476]

@8:04 we just ignoring the ritualistic blood stain patterns across the floors?

[@Bobrogers99]

You had a floor plan for the first floor which was very helpful throughout the tour of that level. However, you offered no plan for the second floor, so that part of the tour lost impact.

[@CulturedElegance]

Thank you for the feedback! Always improving!

[@lgempet2869]

Ah yes, “those were the days” of NO income taxes!!😊

[@SKF358]

Exponential detail!!!! I almost can't believe it. This is what the barons of the gilded age spent their money on. Not liquor, drugs, and hookers. It was a better time.

[@cesarbugarini499]

No lie a Masons or stone worker guided tour of this would be super necessary..... Some of those slabs are butterflied, building of this was probably singularly an American thing to accomplish for the period too? 🤔🤔🤔

[@timward3116]

I don't believe the narrator pronounced "Genoa" in American English. Could it have been British English? This is a nice building - quite a display of wealth that makes the various Kennedy homes look middle-class. Funny, isn't it, how we tend to forget how these people made the money that built these homes?

[@wdm5552]

Actually, she simply mispronounced the Italian city, which is Jen' o-a, accent on the first syllable, not the second

[@timward3116]

@@wdm5552 I believe you're right. I just wondered whether there might be some logical explanation that might be less embarrassing.

[@AngelinaBabovich]

bro married his 5th @ and got a mansion with free wifi and mcdonalds

[@Northstar.131]

Loving Loggias

[@Nuuur_9]

So Louvre and Opéra de Paris

[@arslongavitabrevis5136]

Very good observation! The neobaroque was the style predominant from 1850 to almost 1914. After WW1 the super rich never built mansions in that scale or style.

[@VADACHE]

How come nobody build like this anymore?

[@liveforkingjesus]

because these buildings were stolen from the Millennial kingdom

[@Satu-zs7gm]

it's out of fashion, but look at russian oligarch and saudi prince, they built like this only simpler i guess in line with the current style

[@PeterG1975]

I think only the Marble House compared. Indeed, it was more expensive to build.

[@PermenBoba-dq3jb]

it's more expensive? because of the marble but sheer size this won

[@michaelschonauer7238]

"Knock your socks off" doesn't even begin to describe the dining room...

[@RaviSingh-bh7fs]

What is the after sunroom ??? I mean what it is called???

[@CulturedElegance]

Loggia?

[@guldenaydin9918]

💎

[@gingyberrie]

getting instacensored here .. the vanderbilts live on.

[@aimeefriedman822]

Can the Vanderbilt family PRIVATELY visit the mansions? Could they sleep over for a night if they wanted to?

[@PermenBoba-dq3jb]

the descendants of Gladys Vanderbilt (who owned this house) allowed to live here she was Countess szapary i believe

[@MeMyselfAndUs903]

I think the old-money influence continues to this day. I think some of us still consider “nouveau riche” as conspicuous consumption which is garrish and ostentatious. Do you consider that true elegance abides by “if you got it, you don’t flaunt it”?

[@paulburns1333]

Grotesque. A new high in low taste. I half expected to see a portrait of Liberace or Barry Manilow pop out of a vase. Looks like they took the worst of past civilisations and turned it into a vomit slick palate of colours and shapes designed to turn people insane. The only decent room is the kitchen. The building's alright but the decoration is hideous and someone has to say so, just because it cost a fortune doesn't give it a pass.

[@LostinRestoration39]

Entrance is bigger than a lot of houses at 2500 square feet

[@StellaMartinez-th4pe]

Grandeur

[@greenstaraz]

My style of living

[@donnybrasco6321]

Where is the Vanderbilt fortune now..? 🙄

[@joshb9657]

This was found, asif any amount of people could build this in 2 years without power tools 😂

[@Satu-zs7gm]

they have money lol, they just hire more and more workers costing way more money, it's like hiring 10 maids to wash 2 clothes

[@christikovach6394]

Does Anderson Cooper vacation there ?

[@AppealToHeaven]

Beautiful but really overwhelming and too much

[@barbstocktons9338]

I like Biltmore better

[@kurjan1]

Aghhh, but a mere hovel!

[@FLATSWISS]

This building may very well be one of the buildings originally built by a past civilization… the cranes and scaffolding look very suspect in the opening scene… YT channel My Lunch Break covers many buildings that fall under this theory… Once you realize you were duped about the very earth you walk upon all bets are off… truth is paramount … Peace

[@salbiahpoetri_0766]

4:23

[@eugeniovazquez1483]

Jawbreakers

[@jamesflake6601]

Constructed in 2.5 years? Do you realize we can not achieve this today? LOOK AT IT

[@truthserum5202]

Gimme a break(ers). That home was not built in just two years. Estates with this kind of square footage and ornamentation don't just come together quickly. Not to mention, the quarrying of the stone, bringing it to the site and crafting it to specific shapes. This is easily a 10-15 year build and probably took longer. Someone is giving you either bad information or is intentionally misleading you Ms Narrator.

[@CulturedElegance]

Haha! You are probably correct. But according to the written history of the home they say it was built between 1893-1895

[@arslongavitabrevis5136]

I am inclined to agree with you. Although allowing for the colossal wealth of the Vanderbilts that allowed them to employ the best technology available at the moment, plus the finest craftsmen in the US and France and lots of unskilled workers in rotating shifts, I found the two-year time slot unbelievable but four years is quite reasonable. That was the time it took to build another imposing Vanderbilt mansion, Marble House (1888-1892), also designed by Morris Hunt.

[@StellaMartinez-th4pe]

I am friends with a Russell.

[@ar_xiv]

Watch out for incoming mud flood weirdos

[@wendellworth353]

The age when people had way, way more money than brains.

[@GeorgeFriend79]

This is a good example of a gilded age mansion but it's not the best example. The home of John Astor and his mother was the greatest of all time.

[@greeneyedwarlock882]

CATEGORICALLY BEYOND ANYONE'S ABILITY to comprehend. However, I honestly think it's hugely overdone and is sincerely vulgar. There isn't ONE SQUARE FOOT of this gargantuan excess that isn't gilded, sculpted, carved, bejeweled or otherwise incredibly gaudy.

[@CulturedElegance]

haha good points