# @newport.mansions on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CJq8M1tgWqG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71767598-newportmansions-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/392ca1b093.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-01-05T17:02:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newport Mansions (@newport.mansions) — https://gondola.cc/newport.mansions

## Caption

On this #transformationtuesday, we take a look back at The Breakers.

The Vanderbilt's bought the original house (top) in 1885 from the Lorrilard family and summered there until it was destroyed by a fire in November 1892. Work on the new house began in 1893, and construction on The Breakers (bottom photo), an Italianate-style summer "cottage" designed by Richard Morris Hunt, was completed in just under 2 years.

What a change!

#NewportMansions
#NewportRhodeIsland
#DiscoverNewport
#TheClassicCoast
#VisitNewEngland
#RhodeIsland
#TheBreakers
#TheElms
#History
#ThingsToDoinNewport

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visitnewengland, newportrhodeisland, discovernewport, theclassiccoast, history, rhodeisland, newportmansions, theelms, thingstodoinnewport, thebreakers, transformationtuesday

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