Rehabilitation project aims to return Breakers to Gilded Age appearance

Elizabeth Graham

09/27/2019

RESURFACED: Visitors walk along the exit drive at The Breakers mansion in Newport. The drive was resurfaced with hand-cut pavers and features a heated tubing to keep the exit free of snow and ice in the winter.  / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Phase by phase, the landscape surrounding The Breakers in Newport is moving closer to its late 19th-century roots. Designed by landscape architect Ernest W. Bowditch in the 1870s, much of the work was destroyed by the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. More than 80 years later, a multiyear rehabilitation project aims to return the

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