In Newport alone, he was the artist behind The Breakers, Marble House, Ochre Court, Château-Sur-Mur, the John N. A. Griswold House, which currently houses Newport Art Museum, and the Travers ...

Vanderbilt spared no expense in building Marble House for his wife. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the same architect who worked on The Breakers, another expansive Newport mansion.