Category: The Breakers

The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island: A Grand Tour of the Vanderbilts’ Italianate Summer Home

September 16, 2022
American EssenceArts & CultureBrightsummer cottageThe BreakersVanderbilt
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In the autumn of 1885, Cornelius Vanderbilt II paid a little over $400,000 for a summer cottage in Newport, Rhode Island. The Queen Anne style house, built in 1878, was considered the “crown jewel” of Newport. It had been designed by the architectural firm of Peabody and Stearns for Pierre Lorillard IV, whose fortune came…

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Famed Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach Cancels Conservative David Horowitz’s Group

November 15, 2021
Arts & Culturecancel cultureDavid HorowitzDavid Horowitz Freedom CenterFeatured TopicsPoliticsSocial IssuesThe BreakersUSValues and Tradition
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The David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) has become the latest conservative victim of cancel culture after The Breakers, a world-famous hotel, informed the organization it will no longer host its events because it is “too controversial.” “After a 20-year relationship with The Breakers resort, the Freedom Center was informed that we would no longer be…

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