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History: Gilded Age

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Industrial Spoils

The Breakers, Rhode Island home of the Vanderbilts.

The front of the Breakers, the Vanderbilts' "cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island. Mansions like this were built in Newport almost entirely for summer entertaining among the robber barons and millionaires of the Gilded A - panoramio