The Breakers - Newport Beach, RI

You've arrived at the gates of "The Breakers"...
This was where the Vanderbuilt Family called home for 2 months every summer...

It boasts quite a view of the ocean...

And over the wall is the Cliff Walk past the mansions...

No small fence or lack of greenery either...

I loved the colour of the leaves highlighted by the sunshine...

During our tour...this was the upper balcony...

I tried to capture this to show the detail in the painted ceiling, the walls and the tiny tiled very intricately patterned floor...

Complete with their old "lawn chairs"...sure to protect you from the sun's harmful rays and possibly some unwanted stares!

This picture also shows a bit more of the detail in the floor of the upper balcony.

Somehow I managed a photo of the Great Room from the upper hall...

And this cozy bedroom over the front entrance of the mansion...

And the servants' kitchen...it was huge & sunny...

The family shipped their best china from NYC to The Breakers each summer - I guess the other three sets at the mansion didn't suffice?!

Looking at Mrs Vanderbuilt's oval bedroom up on the second floor with the massive music room below...

Some of the gardens which would have been visible from her window...

Out on the back terrace...

The ocean side view of the mansion...