Visit the Newport Mansions and discover the “summer cottages” that provided the ultimate backdrop for “The Gilded Age” - a society centred on sport, fashion, and parties set in spectacular natural surroundings. Learn the history of each mansion and its owners.
Start your visit by picking up your mansion tickets at the Welcome Centre at The Breakers. For combo tickets, save 23% on two properties or 32% on three and select which properties you would like to visit.
Download the free multilingual audioguide app before you arrive to make the most of your self-guided tour or get a paper guide if you do not have a smartphone.
Start by visiting The Breakers, the grandest mansion and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn-of-the-century America. Explore the 70 rooms of this Italian Renaissance-style palazzo. Then visit the 13-acres of grounds, along with a Stable and Carriage House (open daily).
With 2 or 3 Mansion Tickets, besides The Breakers, you can also choose to visit either:
- Marble House, inspired by the Petit Trianon at Versailles, with over 500,000 cubic feet of marble and a Chinese Tea House in the gardens. (Open Daily except June 21 & 22 2023, and October 30 – November 17, 2023)
- The Elms, modelled on the mid-18th century French Chateau d'Asnieres outside Paris. (Open Daily except October 30th – November 17th, 2023)
- Rosecliff, modelled after the Grand Trianon at Versailles (Open Daily 1 Septemberst – December 31st 2023; except September 21st – 25th 2023,)
- Kingscote (1834), a landmark Gothic Revival style mansion, and the first of the “Cottages” (Open May 30th – July 30th 2023 only)
