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This colonial home was owned by both Jonathon Nichols, Jr. (wealthy merchant) and Colonel Joseph Wanton, Jr. (Deputy Governor of Rhode Island). It was built between 1748 and 1754.

The mansion still stands in great visible condition and is used for many things such as guided and non-guided tours, as well as hosting various special events, parties, and weddings. The Marble House is one of the more popular tourist destinations in Newport, RI.

Known fondly as the Breakers, this 70-room house was completed in 1895. The cost? Over $12 million.

The Newport Marble House was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The house was built as a summer cottage for Alva and William Vanderbilt. William chose to have the house built for his wife for her 39th birthday.

It took nearly four years and $11 million dollars to complete Marble House. Marble House opened in 1892 with a huge dinner party. At the dinner, William announced to their guests that Marble House was a gift to his wife, Alva, on her 39th birthday.

Alva Vanderbilt, later Alva Belmont's story is the one that thrives behind the heavy walls of Marble House.

By this point, Newport's ostentatious Gilded Age mansions had fallen out of fashion, and she sold the house to Frederick H. Prince for just $100,000, less than one percent of its original construction costs 40 years earlier. Frederick H.

William Vanderbilt built Marble House as a 39th birthday present for his wife Alva Vanderbilt. It was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent Gilded Age mansions.

The fifty-room mansion required a staff of 36 servants, including butlers, maids, coachmen, and footmen. The mansion cost $11 million (equivalent to $332 million in 2021); $660 million in Gold-dollar equivalence (1890 $20 Double Eagle gold coin) of which $7 million was spent on 500,000 cubic feet (14,000 m3) of marble.

Originally, the pink Numidian marble is from Roman times. With the Grand Trianon as his inspiration, Hunt focused on making the Newport Marble House similar to a palace.

Today, both the Breakers and the Marble House belong to the Preservation Society of Newport County. Both are also National Historic Landmarks -- and make very clear why author Mark Twain coined the expression "The Gilded Age."

By comparison, the Marble House, the "cottage" built from 1888 to 1892 in Newport, R.I., for millionaire heir and financier William K. Vanderbilt, reportedly cost $11 million to build in 1888, $7 million of which was spent on marble imported from Italy.

This colonial home was owned by both Jonathon Nichols, Jr. (wealthy merchant) and Colonel Joseph Wanton, Jr. (Deputy Governor of Rhode Island). It was built between 1748 and 1754.

The mansion still stands in great visible condition and is used for many things such as guided and non-guided tours, as well as hosting various special events, parties, and weddings. The Marble House is one of the more popular tourist destinations in Newport, RI.

Known fondly as the Breakers, this 70-room house was completed in 1895. The cost? Over $12 million.

The Newport Marble House was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The house was built as a summer cottage for Alva and William Vanderbilt. William chose to have the house built for his wife for her 39th birthday.

It took nearly four years and $11 million dollars to complete Marble House. Marble House opened in 1892 with a huge dinner party. At the dinner, William announced to their guests that Marble House was a gift to his wife, Alva, on her 39th birthday.

Alva Vanderbilt, later Alva Belmont's story is the one that thrives behind the heavy walls of Marble House.

By this point, Newport's ostentatious Gilded Age mansions had fallen out of fashion, and she sold the house to Frederick H. Prince for just $100,000, less than one percent of its original construction costs 40 years earlier. Frederick H.

William Vanderbilt built Marble House as a 39th birthday present for his wife Alva Vanderbilt. It was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent Gilded Age mansions.

The fifty-room mansion required a staff of 36 servants, including butlers, maids, coachmen, and footmen. The mansion cost $11 million (equivalent to $332 million in 2021); $660 million in Gold-dollar equivalence (1890 $20 Double Eagle gold coin) of which $7 million was spent on 500,000 cubic feet (14,000 m3) of marble.

Originally, the pink Numidian marble is from Roman times. With the Grand Trianon as his inspiration, Hunt focused on making the Newport Marble House similar to a palace.

Today, both the Breakers and the Marble House belong to the Preservation Society of Newport County. Both are also National Historic Landmarks -- and make very clear why author Mark Twain coined the expression "The Gilded Age."

By comparison, the Marble House, the "cottage" built from 1888 to 1892 in Newport, R.I., for millionaire heir and financier William K. Vanderbilt, reportedly cost $11 million to build in 1888, $7 million of which was spent on marble imported from Italy.