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The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the Gilded Age mansions built as summer retreats around the turn of the 20th century by the extremely wealthy, including the Vanderbilt and Astor families.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, [1] and is completely contained within the National Historic Landmark District Bellevue Avenue Historic District. [ 2 ] The first building on the block was the Travers Building, 170-184 Bellevue, which was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1870-71 for ...
[1] An $8 million renovation by new owners in the late 1990s brought improvements, and saw the hotel join the Historic Hotels of America in 1997. [ 5 ] Renovations again occurred in 2007 (to restore its rooms to "Gilded Age splendor") and in 2016.
It is Rhode Island's largest and most-visited cultural organization. The organization protects the architectural heritage of Newport County, especially the Bellevue Avenue Historic District . Seven of its 14 historic properties and landscapes are National Historic Landmarks , and most are open to the public.
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 White.
The Newport Historic District is a historic district that covers 250 acres (100 ha) in the center of Newport in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It was designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1968 due to its extensive and well-preserved assortment of intact colonial buildings dating from the early and mid-18th century.
The commission was given to McKim, Mead, and White in 1898, and the New York branch of Jules Allard and Sons were engaged as interior decorators. Construction started in 1899, but the sharp winter slowed construction; Mrs. Oelrichs' sister had married William K. Vanderbilt II that winter season, and the house was required for parties in the following Newport season; the eager Mrs. Oelrichs ...
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 .