Join us for a visit to Newport, Rhode Island to see some of the most fabulous estates in the United States and learn about their place in American history. Get the interview transcription and more info here: www.yurview.co...
I live in Rhode Island, its nice to see my little state. Newport is beautiful the mansions are magnificent. My sister attended Salve Regina University in Newport for nursing ,her classes were at the mansions. I used to skip my classes to go with her and sometimes i could sit in her classes. Its surreal to be in the mansions seeing all the art on the walls, the detail everywhere is beautiful. If u can go, go not only for the mansions but for Thames St in Newport, its 1 of those really long streets with tons of different shops, delicious food, souvenirs, clothing and all sorts of candy. Its a lot of fun. Enjoy.
Some long ago i did repairs on a few around. And then some yrs later with no connection from working, i got to be invited to these magnificent homes as a guest. Strange how life is.
I've been lucky enough to see all five of the mansion's mentioned. They're beautiful all year round but they're even more beautiful at Christmas time all decorated with the lights & the Christmas trees in pretty much every room. At The Breakers in the lobby they have a giant poinsettia Christmas tree, it's beautiful
Just returned from Newport for a long weekend and the Breakers was already decorated and in the process of being decorated and you’re right, a large Xmas tree in every major room lol.
Now The Gilded Age will drive even more tourism to the area, I am sure. I wonder which season will see Bertha building her Newport estate? When will Gladys become a dollar princess? Will Mrs Astor finally accept them into society?
Now with the new HBO show The Gilded Age, Newport will be front and center!! I’ve been to Newport and attended dinner at the Breakers when my Son received a award at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Quite a place!!
I doubt you could build mansions like this today . The cost would be the biggest prohibiting factor , but would builders have the kind of skills today for this sort of mind blowing architecture . The interiors of these homes are just as opulent and mind blowing as the exteriors of these mega properties . To be honest I don't understand how a family even a large family can live in these monolithic structures . I was reading a book once about the gilded age in America and the robber barons that created that period in American history . Some of these places had upwards of 50 bedrooms , dozens of bathrooms and lounge rooms and living spaces for hec anything you could imagine . These homes magnificent looking as they are, really do epitomize what I can only call obscene wealth . I have often wondered how practical they really were and were people truly happy in them . Who knows , they well could have been .
I grew up in Rhode Island. I never took a mansion tour until I was in my 20s after I married and moved away. 1st time, took a friend who has never been to anywhere in New England. This was in 1990. Went to Marble house and the Breakers. Every time since, when I go to RI to visit family and friends, I always make plans to slumming it in Newport. Last summer my husband went for the 1st time.
You know what’s way more impressive and interesting about all these stunning estates? All the dark horrifying history of the robberbarrons and eugenics
I have been to the mansions; my favorite one is Dorothy Dukes - Rough Point. I do like the Breakers and Marble House at Christmas time; they are beautifully decorated.
A Wonderful tour of Newport and the mansions! Not to be missed! A lot more about Alva and Conselo's story in the book 'Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt". Their story beats Downton Abbey!
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Had a beautiful 10 days touring Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Was able to see the many mansions there. Very conspicuous consumption back in their day. It’s a beautiful start.
How ironic it is Alva was a driving force in the women's sufferidge movement but forced her daughter into suffering after forcing her to marry a man she did not love.
I saw you guys today while driving up Bellevue Ave during my lunch break. I build and repair gunite swimming pools and do a lot of work in Newport on some very beautiful properties. The Newport mansions are quite spectacular but to me it's the very scenic rugged coastline that is the real charm of the island.
These mansions are beyond impressive when you see them in person! It totally ruined my view of houses (in a good way)....I now love the opulence that they have. I see now that every inch of a house can be a work of art. The Breakers is my favorite. I bought a ticket to see 5 mansions for about $35... worth every penny!!
Definitely worth a trip. We went last summer and saw two of the mansions, the Breakers and Marble House. Had a great time. Planning to go back and see some of the others once things get back to normal.
Evan Smith, President and CEO, Discover Newport, clearly has the talent and expertise for his role, a truly Executive delivery, his personality would allow him the position in any corporate setting, particularly those interested in Public and/or Employee Relations. He adds a very "Newport level" air to the story of this historic island. A worthy documentary on the subject of Newport. Beth Tennessee, USA (a Lynch, and DAR, of the Lynchburg, VA lineage. Not certain of any relation to Nellie Lynch mentioned here, but could be.) Added to my Bucket List.
Best restaurants in America lmao ok if you say so. Avg at best. But other than that yes Newport is one of the best places to live or visit. It’s like the perfect little hideaway. The sailing here is second to none. The downtown scene is full of activity and things to do and the sunsets are crazy beautiful.
One thing never/rarely discussed in the house tours is how the New York families travelled up to their cottages: by private rail car, which would be driven directly adjacent (or perhaps even into, I believe that is what I was told?!) the houses to be unloaded of their crockery, silver, plate, grand art works, and of course, all those dresses from Worth!
The private cars couldn't get closer than the train tracks would allow and no one in these houses was going to have railroad tracks leading up to, let alone INto, their houses. All the good were unloaded onto trucks that brought them in. The other way some arrived was by private yacht.
My family are direct descendants of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He's entombed somewhere around there. My wife and I finally visited RI a few years back and didn't even visit the cemetery. Sorry Gramps. I always imagined the bloodline would have made us American royalty if the U.S. was anything other than a democracy. 😊
By the way, those other two towns on the island are Portsmouth and Middletown and have their own uniqueness and beauty. Some how Evan forgot to mention their names.
I used to live on the colonial side of Newport, in a merchant's house built before the Revolution. I like that side of Newport better. Of course it's not a grand mansion, it's simply a house, lived in by a family of long standing, pre-Revolutionary war living in the same house, expanding them as their businesses grew. One can see the growth of their fortunes by the heights of their doors!
Newport Ocean Drive is A Nice place to Visit, Visited some Female School that had a Fresco was NICE. Rhode Island a Legit State VERY chill👌, More FAMILY orientated but CHILL. Plus I lived next Door to my Weed Man whom I was close friends with.
@@wincrasher2007 I paid many times to take the tour. It is well worth it. But I agree stfu about the "Preservation Society" and talk about the history of the structures.
Alva Smith Vanderbilt was not middle class as the documentary states. She came from a prosperous Mobile family that lost most of the family fortune in the Civil War. The family took what was left of the family money and moved to France after the war. While not on the scale of Marble House her family home on Government Street in Mobile was impressive in its time!
How they built such an exquisite stone renaissance style mansions without high developed industries, logistics and very well high educated different types of specialties? Its impossible. Does the history lies to us or my eyes and logic?
I was very interested in this video and very disappointed. It’s tourism video for travel to Newport not historical stories of these houses. It’s like sitting thru a timeshare pitch.
In as much as the history lesson is amazing, the whistling themes backing music makes this video virtually intolerable, for me, at least. I had to seek an alternate source for such information.
"A lifestyle that they loved and a lifestyle at other people´s expense. Servants were very poorly paid. All this wealth could have been put to much better use. Helping people. But the people who built these mansions were only concerned with one thing. Themselves.
Billions of dollars are given in aid every year and yet people in Africa are still starving. It is not about just throwing sround more money to solve the problem, you have to get to the root of the problem to solve it. The majority of poor people are poor for a reason. You may have missed the part about many of the servants who worked for these families went on to work in high end hotels and others were able to start their own small businesses with the skills they learned. It’s always poor people telling the rich how to spend their money.😂
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Great to see our mansions in Newport R.I. On tv brings back all great memories of Newport, mansion, art, walks through time the streets ,homes, restaurants, docks with beautiful sailboats , the romantic Inns and their beauty spas, tours,fishing ,golfing and more
Why are these American super rich not iving still in these Mansons. Why are they owned & run by conservative Companies. Have the owners lost their money
Why were Americans pretending to be snobby Brits in the Gilded Age? Didn't they fight a war to get rid of this type of thing from America? It has a very Disney princess energy. I do actually love the buildings and find this interesting, btw, I am just commenting. I worked in a country club in Texas and it had revivalist architecture, and fussy patrons, felt gimmicky and cheesy with American accents. I also felt like my clipped New Zealand accent upset them. They said "why are you so formal. You are making the patrons uncomfortable" after giving me endless formal rules to follow. I am glad the rich began patronizing more American art and culture in the 20th century. Porgy and Bess, Norman Rockwell, Grant Wood, Harlem renaissance. Feels more American! More authentic to America's own culture.
