Marble House signaled Newport's transformation into a summer resort of opulent Gilded Age stone palaces. Built with 500,000 cubic feet of marble in an array of colors, it was used by Alva …

Marble House, a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and …

Completed in 1892, for William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849-1920) as a birthday present for his first wife, the indomitable Mrs Alva Vanderbilt. Many American houses may have been large and …

2020年4月21日 · Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Designed as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt by the society architect Richard …

Alva Vanderbilt was a leading hostess in Newport society who envisioned Marble House as her "temple to the arts" in America. The house was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt, …

Quietly nestled along the Narraganset Bay, the Marble House was the first of the stone palaces to be built in Newport—transforming the quiet colony of wooden houses into a bastion of …

2024年8月27日 · Marble House was completed in 1892 as a summer home for William K. Vanderbilt and Alva Vanderbilt. Built with half a million cubic feet of marble, it features 50 …

Marble House, the summer home of William K. Vanderbilt, is definitely one of the top 3 Newport Rhode Island mansions to see, in my opinion. The others being The Breakers and The Elms. …

2015年2月15日 · Marble House, a classical work of art located on famed Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer home of William and Alva Vanderbilt. Alva Erskine …

In 1888, William K. Vanderbilt commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design the finest summerhouse in Newport, Rhode Island. William's wife, Alva, was a very dynamic woman who …