The Architect
The Breakers is also a definitive expression of Beaux-Arts architecture in American domestic design by one of the country's most influential architects, Richard Morris Hunt. The Breakers is one of the few surviving works of Hunt that has not been demolished during the last century and is therefore valuable for its rarity as well as its architectural excellence. The Breakers was Hunt’s final work. The Breakers made Hunt the "dean of American architecture" as well as helping define the era in American life which Hunt helped to shape.
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