Images of Marble House
Marble House and its collection
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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 was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style . It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892. Its temple-front portico resembles that of the White House . The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. It is now open to the public as a museum run by the Newport Preservation Society .
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