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The library at Marble House in Newport is decorated for Christmas in 2017. In Rhode Island, Newport was HGTV's pick, with the charm of the mansions decorating in their holiday splendor winning the ...
The 25th annual Pawtucket Winter Wonderland, Rhode Island's largest Christmas display and festival, is ready at Slater Park. Spread over 30 acres, the display will include 650 decorated Christmas ...
The Elms mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, is decorated for Christmas. Dan Hanscom/Shutterstock Newport is known for its famous mansions like The Breakers , The Elms, and Marble House.
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 ...
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 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 mansion was modeled after King Louis XIV's Grand Trianon. During the Gilded Age , Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer home of Theresa "Tessie" Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress.
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.