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The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States on the Atlantic Ocean (41°28′11″N 71°17′55″W). It is a National Historic Landmark and a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County. The 70-room mansion was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. It was designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt, with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., and it boasts approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m²) of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than $7 million (approximately $150 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation). The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates, and 30-foot (9.1 m) high walkway gates are part of a 12-foot high limestone and iron fence which borders the property on all sides except the ocean side.