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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.
Bay to Breakers
San Francisco
12 Kilometer Run
Run?
A large version so you can see if there is anyone you know.
Started in 1912, it is the longest consecutively running footrace in the world.
For more history:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_to_Breakers
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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.
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This place looks great at night and is usually packed full of people. Take with a D7000 and a Nikkor 50mm F/1.2 AI-S
Rt. 14/176 Crystal Lake, IL
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.
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Last month a spent a few days in Newport, Rhode Island and visited two of the mansions built during the Gilded Age. Here are six outside shots from the first one we toured.
"Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers (1893-1895), 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. In 1893, Mr. Vanderbilt and his wife Alice commissioned Richard Morris Hunt to design a house that would replace one on the same property that was destroyed by a fire in November of 1892."
www.newportmansions.org/learn/architecture/aspects-of-arc...
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Wade
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The Old St. Nicholas coal Breaker, located just outside of Mahanoy City, was constructed in 1930 it was the largest coal breaker in the world.