The Breakers
by Chris Lord
Title
The Breakers
Artist
Chris Lord
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Gothic mansion "The Breakers" in Newport, Rhode Island under dark gloomy clouds.
The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family. The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 125,339 square feet and 62,482 square feet of living area on five floors, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Renaissance Revival style; the interior décor was by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman Jr. The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates, and the 30-foot-high walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high limestone-and-iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The footprint of the house covers approximately 1 acre or 43,000 square feet of the 14 acres estate on the cliffs overlooking Easton Bay of the Atlantic Ocean
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January 16th, 2022
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Chris Lord
A huge thank you to host PENG SHI for the gracious FEATURE in the group "MIND-BLOWING PHOTOGRAPHY"
Meg Shearer
So cool! I love this gothic version of The Breakers! Deliciously atmospheric! Beautiful work!
Chris Lord replied:
That glorious old building was just begging for such a treatment :-) Thank you so much Meg
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