I love how the big houses and such looked during the Gilded age. If I had money to actually buy a house at all, I would want it to physically resemble a house like this one.
3 months ago | 1
70 rooms built for only a small amount of people in RI. Nobody questions that these old world buildings are everywhere throughout the US built at the same time 🧐
3 months ago | 0
Old Money Mansions
NEWPORT PRESERVATION SUCCESS
How Rhode Island's Gilded Age mansions avoided demolition by becoming profitable cultural attractions.
Due to strategic preservation efforts beginning in the 1940s, Newport's "summer cottages"—including The Breakers with its 70 rooms—survived by transforming from private residences into museums that generate sustainable revenue through public tours.
The Preservation Society of Newport County pioneered heritage tourism models where former Vanderbilt and Astor mansions now employ hundreds while educating millions about Gilded Age architecture and social history.
The Newport preservation demonstrates that magnificent architecture can survive economic change—where converting private palaces to public attractions creates sustainable funding that preserves cultural heritage while generating community economic benefits.
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