View allAll Photos Tagged breakers
The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a National Historic Landmark, a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, and is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County.
The Breakers was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt and with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., the 70-room mansion boasts approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2). of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than $7 million (approximately $150 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation). The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates and 30-foot (9.1 m) high walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high limestone and iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The 250' x 120' dimensions of the five-story mansion are aligned symmetrically around a central Great Hall.
Part of a 13-acre (53,000 m²) estate on the seagirt cliffs of Newport, it sits in a commanding position that faces east overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
Visit my BLOG to “Take a Peek Inside the Huber Breaker Ruins”:
cherisundra.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/peek-inside-the-hube...
Sony DSC
© 2012 Skip Plitt, All Rights Reserved.
This photo may not be used in any form without permission from the photographer.
The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) established the family fortune in steamships and later in the New York Central Railroad, which was a pivotal development in the industrial growth of the nation during the late 19th century.
The Commodore's grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became The Breakers dining roomChairman and President of the New York Central Railroad system in 1885, and purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport during that same year. In 1893, he commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a villa to replace the earlier wood-framed house which was destroyed by fire the previous year. Hunt directed an international team of craftsmen and artisans to create a 70 room Italian Renaissance- style palazzo inspired by the 16th century palaces of Genoa and Turin. Allard and Sons of Paris assisted Hunt with furnishings and fixtures, Austro-American sculptor Karl Bitter designed relief sculpture, and Boston architect Ogden Codman decorated the family quarters. Source: www.newportmansions.org/explore/the-breakers
View my photostream large and on black here
I didn't manage to get out today, so I thought I would post another shot from yesterday morning. These wave breakers stretch all along the beach in varying clumps and cluster all the way from Dunster to Blue Anchor. Some of them are really old a haggard and from a distance look like precessions of gnarled, hunched over creatures.
Although these are wave breakers, the title came more from the fact that it made me think of Stephen King's books, particularly the Breakers in the Dark Towers series. Humans with psychic powers imprisoned by the Crimson king in a place where time bearly moves.
Anyway, thats just my take on it.
Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to look at my shots and leave comments. They are greatly appreciated.
Canon 5d
Canon 17-40L @ 19mm
70 sec
f16
100 iso
B+W 10 Stop Filter
Lee 0.6 Hard Edge ND Grad
I have set up a fan page on Facebook if anyone would like to join
Beachfront view of the Breakers at Cedar Point. Fun detail - the pedestrian all the way to the left of the photo is also all the way to the right of the photo.
huber coal breaker. ashley, PA. in operation from 1939 to 1976. coal breaker w/ a power plant. the breaker is 11 stories tall at 134 ft.