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2. The Elms (Newport, Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

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   The Elms is a large mansion (sometimes facetiously called a "summer cottage") located at 367 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, completed in 1901.The architect Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) designed it for the coal baron Edward Julius Berwind (1848–1936), taking inspiration from the 18th century Château d'Asnières in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.

3. Miramar (mansion) - Wikipedia

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   Miramar is a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) French neoclassical-style mansion on 7.8 acres (32,000 m 2) bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Overlooking Rhode Island Sound, it was intended as a summer home for the George D. Widener family of Philadelphia .

4. Newport Restoration Foundation - Wikipedia

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   Newport Restoration Foundation. Coordinates: 41.48966°N 71.31341°W. c. 1811 windmill on Prescott Farm. The Newport Restoration Foundation was founded by Doris Duke in 1968 in Newport, Rhode Island to preserve early housing stock including 18th century colonial homes. Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the foundation's vice ...

5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport ...

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   March 30, 1988. ( #88000277) Off Ocean Ave. on Castle Hill at the western end of Newport Neck. 41°27′43″N 71°21′48″W. /  41.461944°N 71.363333°W  / 41.461944; -71.363333  ( Castle Hill Lighthouse) Newport. 1890 lighthouse still in active use; part of the Lighthouses of Rhode Island TR.

6. The Breakers - Wikipedia

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   Designated NHLDCP. December 8, 1972. The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family . The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 138,300 square feet (12,850 m 2) and ...

7. Newport Historical Society - Wikipedia

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   Newport Historical Society. Collect, document and preserve Newport ’s unique contribution to our national narrative over the course of five centuries. The Newport Historical Society is a historical society in Newport, Rhode Island that was chartered in 1854 to collect and preserve books, manuscripts, and objects pertaining to Newport's history.

8. Newport, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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   Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Providence, 20 miles (32 km) south of Fall River, Massachusetts, 74 miles (119 km) south of Boston, and 180 miles (290 km) northeast of New York City. It is known as a New England summer ...

9. Kingscote (mansion) - Wikipedia

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   Kingscote is a Gothic Revival mansion and house museum at Bowery Street and Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1839. As one of the first summer "cottages" constructed in Newport, it is now a National Historic Landmark. It was remodeled and extended by George Champlin Mason and later by Stanford ...