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Guide-led Tours

Our expert guides lead fascinating specialty tours such as Beneath The Breakers, The Elms Servant Life and The Breakers Third Floor Preservation in Progress. Other guided tours available by season at some houses.

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Guide-led Tour  at  The Breakers

Beneath The Breakers Tour

Daily 10 am & 2 pm

Explore the underground systems that made this great house a marvel of technology for its time.
Starting September 2, offered at 10 am only.

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Guide-led Tour  at  The Breakers

Third Floor Preservation in Progress Tour

Daily 12 pm & 2 pm

For the first time in the 129-year history of The Breakers, the private third-floor family space occupied by generations of Vanderbilts is open for public tours.
Starting November 3, offered at 12 pm only.

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Guide-led Tour  at  The Elms

Servant Life Tour

Daily 10 am, 12 pm & 2 pm

See and hear how the other half lived. This tour will highlight the stories of some of the men and women who worked to service the social whirl of Newport during the Gilded Age.
Starting September 2, offered at 10 am & 2 pm.

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Past Guide-led Tour

Inside “The Gilded Age” Tour

May 2 – June 27, 2025

Fans of HBO’s “The Gilded Age” will love this guide-led tour of locations in four of the Newport Mansions where Julian Fellowes’ historical drama series was filmed. Fridays only, May 2 through June 27.

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