Marble House was completed in 1892 as a summer home for William K. Vanderbilt and Alva Vanderbilt. Built with half a million cubic feet of marble, it features 50 rooms and spans 140,000 square feet.

Explore the opulent rooms of Alva Vanderbilt's $11 million birthday present from her husband William Hear first-hand about the extensive planning that goes into decorating a Gilded Age landmark for ...

Alva Belmont, then WK Vanderbilt’s wife, costumed for a fancy dress ball which she gave in March of 1883.Bettmann/Getty Images Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — The Breakers is taking a break. The Preservation Society of Newport County says it’s closing the famed Gilded Age mansion for three months starting Monday. But there’s good news ...

NEWPORT, Rhode Island – The dining room was built of red marble, the Gothic room of European medieval oak panels, the grand salon of 22-karat gold. My 9-year-old daughter and I met eyes as we ogled ...

The book: “A Well Behaved Woman” by Therese Anne Fowler The site: Marble House and Belcourt, Newport, R.I. Julian Fellowes may have cast his HBO costume drama about late-19th-century New York society, ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Newport’s Gilded Age socialite, evolves into ardent suffragette. March is Women’s History Month and we salute Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a grand dame of the Gilded Age who ...

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. She built palatial residences on "Millionaires' Row" in New York and in Newport, Rhode Island. In ...

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