Quick quiz: What National Historic Landmark has been called “the architectural and social archetype of the Gilded Age”? If you guessed The Breakers, you are correct. On this date in 1994, The Breakers was declared a National Historic Landmark. As noted in the nomination form: “The Breakers is … the fullest expression of Beaux-Arts architecture in American domestic design by one of the founding fathers of architecture in America, Richard Morris Hunt. The Breakers is one of the few surviving works of Hunt that has not been demolished in the last century and is therefore valuable for its rarity as well as its architectural excellence. … The Breakers encapsulates the social and architectural forces that defined American society in the Gilded Age.” #NewportMansions #TheBreakers #tuesdaytrivia #tuesdaytruth #history #preservation #architecturedesign #newport #DiscoverNewport