Newport Mansion ‘The Breakers’ Closing for Three Months

NEWPORT, R.I. — The Breakers is taking a break.

The Preservation Society of Newport County says it's closing the famed Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, for three months starting Monday.

But there's good news for mansion aficionados.

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Marble House, a popular Newport destination and National Historic Landmark that's been closed since last March because of the coronavirus pandemic, is reopening to visitors.

Marble House was completed in 1892 as a summer home for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt of New York City. It was designed by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt with inspiration from the Petit Trianon at Versailles, France.