Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion that belonged to one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families

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Look inside the Breakers, a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion that belonged to one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families

The Breakers was owned by one of America's wealth.Alexander Nesbitt/The Preservation Society of Newport CountyThe Vanderbilts, one of America's wealthiest Gilded Age families, owned multiple opulent homes.The Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island, was their summer escape.Now a museum, the Breakers features 70 rooms and spans 138,300 square feet.During the Gilded Age, Cornelius Vanderbilt was America's richest man with an estimated net worth of $100 …