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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.
The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island, was the Berwind family's summer home. ... Sarah Herminie Berwind, spent $1.4 million, or around $28 million today, to build a summer home in Newport, Rhode Island.
The Elms: Newport, Rhode Island. ... Newport, Rhode Island. ... The estate was a wedding present from William S. Slater to his daughter, Elizabeth Ives Slater Reed.
I've toured eight Gilded Age mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Hudson Valley, New York. ... The Elms was modeled after an 18th-century French château named Chateau D'Asnieres and built ...
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 ...
Ogden Codman Jr. Elm Court is an Italianate style mansion located at 315 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Part of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, it was built in 1853 and designed in the Italianate style by George Champlin Mason Sr. In 1882, McKim, Mead & White renovated the remodeled and enlarged the house after it was bought ...
Miramar (mansion) 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.
English: Staircase and Entrance Hall of "The Elms" — the Edward J. Berwind Mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Built 1899-1901; designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. 1970 image: HABS—Historic American Buildings Survey of Rhode Island.