Marble House | The Ultimate Gilded Age Power Move 💎🏰

Meet Marble House—Newport’s other Vanderbilt mansion where divorce drama, feminist history, and Chinese tea parties collide. Here’s why this $11 million marble-clad birthday gift (yes, really) is a must-see: 🎩 Backstory Tea • Built in 1892 by William K. Vanderbilt as a 39th birthday gift for wife Alva… who divorced him 3 years later 💍💔 • Alva’s Revenge: Took back the house post-divorce, turned it into a suffrage HQ (spot the "Votes for Women" china!). • Iconic Flex: Added a seaside Chinese Tea House for political salons (now serving matcha lattes 🍵). Hot Take: Alva = original girlboss. 🏛️ Must-See Spaces 🔸 Gold Ballroom: 500,000 sheets of actual gold leaf (💰👀) 🔸 Chinese Tea House: Pagoda views + activist ghosts 🔸 Kitchen Exhibit: "Votes for Women" engraved on silverware Pro Tip: Peek at The Breakers (brother’s mansion) 20 mins away—Vanderbilt sibling rivalry vibes. 🎟️ Visiting Intel • $25 admission (worth it for the drama lore alone) • Tea House Café: Sip jasmine tea where suffragists plotted • Ghost Hunt: Alva’s portrait judges you in the foyer Q: Team Alva or Team William? Pick a side! 👇 #GildedAge #NewportMansions #FeministHistory #LuxuryTravel