Marble House, Newport: How to Visit and What to Do Nearby

Marble House stands at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, a Beaux-Arts mansion completed in 1892 for William K. Vanderbilt, designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The exterior is clad in 500,000 cubic feet of white Westchester marble. The Gold Room ballroom is paneled in gold leaf over carved wood, and the dining room features pink Numidian marble walls and bronze furniture. Alva Vanderbilt later added a Chinese Tea House on the rear lawn, a structure shipped from China and reassembled on the cliff edge overlooking the ocean. is just one of many options in Newport. Major attractions worth considering include Newport Cliff Walk, The Breakers, and Touro Synagogue National Historic Site.