The Breakers Mansion

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This paper describes The Breakers mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. The paper relates that it was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the style of an Italian Renaissance villa, and it was built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II in the late 19th Century. The paper includes a brief history of the Vanderbuilt family and also explains what the function of the mansion is today.

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"The Breakers was built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II and was built in Newport because of the family's passion for yachting and the fact that Newport was the social pinnacle of America at the time. The first Vanderbilts in America were a family of Dutch farmers who migrated to America in the latter half of the century. They settled in New York originally known as New Netherland and not much is known about their early history."

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