The Breakers - the 70 room cottage of Cornelius Vanderbilt II - was started in the spring of 1893 and finished in the summer of 1895. Total square feet: 138,300!
This is the first of three posts.
What struck me right away were the faces. Here are a few that peered at me.
And Cornelius himself:
He enjoyed this house for only four summer seasons. He had a stroke in 1896 and then a second one in 1899 which killed him just before he would have celebrated his 56th birthday. His wife whom he had married in 1867 and who bore him seven children summered at The Breakers until her death in 1934.
