Best Marble House Tours in Summer

The extravagant mansion's Beaux Arts design by Richard Morris Hunt was influenced by Petite Trianon at The Palace of Versailles, France and the structure was built between 1888-92 in Newport, Rhode Island for William Vanderbilt and his wife at a total cost of $11 million. Marble House has 200,000 cubic square feet of marble and spectacular ornate interior rooms. It was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark. A Chinese Tea House is located along side the home on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.