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The Breakers was built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II between 1893 and 1895. The structure is a 70 room, 5 level mansion and is 125,339 square feet. It was modeled after the Italian Renaissance palazzos found in Turin and Genoa. It was purchased by The Preservation Society of Newport County in 1972 for $365,000.
The remains of what I believe to be wooden wave breakers at Burnham on Sea. Stood in the wet sand with the harsh sunlight overhead. Time seaming ticking slowly by with each tide.
August 20, 2020 - New York, NY - NYPA President and CEO Gil Quiniones visits NYPA's brand new Breaker II tug boat as it stops in lower Manhattan en route to the Niagara Power Project, where it will join the fleet of other boats. (Philip Kamrass/ New York Power Authority)
This is a close up of the Breakers Tower section of the Hotel Breakers at Cedar Point. Breakers Tower opened up in 1999.
Breakers fans arrive at the Vector Arena. iinet ANBL, New Zealand SkyCity Breakers vs Sydney Kings, Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand. Friday 28th October 2011. Photo: Anthony Au-Yeung / photosport.co.nz
Isn't it beautiful? This was an unexpected part of the project, but it made total sense: replace the potentially faulty Federal Pacific (just google) breaker box with a new one that would be smaller and project less.
In addition to the new box, the electrician upgraded our breakers from 15 to 20 amps. Sweet! This means that we can now run the microwave and the toaster at the same time! Life is good.
The Breakers was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, grandson of "The Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt who established the family fortune. It was designed by preeminent American architect Richard Morris Hunt, who built many of the family's lavish mansions, and completed it in only two years in 1895 at the then-astronomical cost of more than $7 million (approximately $150 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation).