Dining Room, The Breakers (1893)*

Artist/Designer: Richard Morris Hunt

Project Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Figure 1: Valdes-Lora, Carolina. Member of the Victorian Society in America Non-Profit National Organization. “Dining Room at The Breakers.” Photograph. Newport, RI: Newport Summer School Scholars.

Figure 2: Valdes-Lora, Carolina. Member of the Victorian Society in America Non-Profit National Organization. “Dining Room at The Breakers.” Photograph. Newport, RI: Newport Summer School Scholars.

Figure 3: Valdes-Lora, Carolina. Member of the Victorian Society in America Non-Profit National Organization. “Dining Room at The Breakers.” Photograph. Newport, RI: Newport Summer School Scholars.

Figure 4: Valdes-Lora, Carolina. Member of the Victorian Society in America Non-Profit National Organization. “Dining Room at The Breakers.” Photograph. Newport, RI: Newport Summer School Scholars.

Figure 5: Valdes-Lora, Carolina. Member of the Victorian Society in America Non-Profit National Organization. “Dining Room at The Breakers.” Photograph. Newport, RI: Newport Summer School Scholars.

Figure 6: Valdes-Lora, Carolina. Member of the Victorian Society in America Non-Profit National Organization. “Dining Room at The Breakers.” Photograph. Newport, RI: Newport Summer School Scholars.

Style/Period(s):
Revival Styles, Neoclassical

Primary Material(s):
Stone

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

For tours and visiting hours of The Breakers (c. 1893)

Significant Date(s):
19th Century

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print-
Craven, Wayne. Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
Yarnall, James. Newport Through Its Architecture: A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2005.
Downing, Antoinette F. and Vincent J. Scully Jr. The Architectural Heritage of Newport, RI, 1640-1915. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
Stein, Susan R., ed. The Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Richard, Cheek. Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age. Norfolk: Foremost Publications, 1982.

Building Address:

44 Ochre Point Ave, Newport, RI 02840

Significant Dates:

Grounds purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1885

Built in 1893

Cornelius Vanderbilt II leads property to be owned by wife Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt in 1899

Owned by Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt until death in 1934

Owned by Countess Gladys Széchenyi (1886–1965) until 1948

Leased to The Preservation Society of Newport County in 1948

Supporting Staff/ Designers:

N/A

Tags:

Corinthian columbs, 19th century , Baccarat, dining room, New England, gilded age, Roman ideals, Neoclassical, The Breakers

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