The Breakers place
also: this house, The Breakers
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Richard Morris Hunt founded
The Breakers host_asserted
“uh the gilded age yeah the robber barons then of course he gets newport rhode island and he builds the breakers now this is done in i just visited there two weeks ago um and it is gorgeous and it is gaudy and it is decadent i have all kinds…”
▶ The Shadow State 51 Scroll and Key Pt. 1 @ 8:02
Vanderbilt family funded
The Breakers host_asserted
“It seems to me that the Vanderbilts cared only about the status, nothing about charity. I mean, they may have donated to some libraries, but every single thing they spent their money on was about building gaudy monuments to their great-gran…”
▶ The Shadow State 54 The Vanderbilt Curse @ 1:16:35
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▶ 8:02
uh the gilded age yeah the robber barons then of course he gets newport rhode island and he builds the breakers now this is done in i just visited there two weeks ago um and it is gorgeous and it is gaudy and it is decadent i have all kinds…
▶ 54:54
among some of these families. Well, you want to look at some of these houses real quick? Sure. I'll show a few first. And we've seen this before when we did this, when we started scrolling key, but when we started talking about Hunt, the ar…
▶ 1:05:09
um of the marble house and this is some of the the landscape this is the view from the back end this is just another one of the houses that were along the the trip um that we were looking at and this is the other one what's the breakers my …
▶ 1:05:57
oh and the grand scare case that um war hamster was just talking about this is it so you see how it comes down from the and it's like a double staircase it is very very grand i've got um i've got the tea house if you want me to pull it real…
▶ 1:10:18
I think that one's hideous, but whatever. Mr. Vanderbilt's bedroom. Which Mr.? The one that built this house. The Breakers. This is what their closet looked like. Their suits hung on these things here. Tub right there is made out of marble.…
▶ 1:11:06
And I just want to look at this bathroom. And like he said, this is the state of the art plumbing back then. Nobody had indoor plumbing back then. Another picture of the closet. This is in her bedroom. That's the dressing room. Another bath…
▶ 1:12:55
It should be in the screen share below. All I see is mine. Well, crap. Try it again. I'll do the screen share. Here it is. I know, but it's not showing it to me. Hold on a second. Let me stop screen. Okay, there you are. There you go. All r…
▶ 1:14:02
This is the kitchen in the breakers. Yeah, I got that. That's just amazing. That's like the world's biggest stove. These are very modern appliances, but they've got to cook for like a thousand people. And the pot fillers along the wall back…
▶ 1:21:39
We are the Vanderbilts. We have more money than God. Watch us show it off. Look at the face on that thing. You know, you couldn't do cherubs or anything like that. What kind of feel did you get when going in there? It's creepy. I'm telling …