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One adult ticket costs $25 and can be purchased through the Preservation Society of Newport County. An app called Newport Mansions also offers self-guided audio tours of Rosecliff and other Gilded ...
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.
Hammersmith Farm is a shingle-style mansion and estate located at 225 Harrison Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was a childhood home of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, and the site of the reception for her wedding to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy in September, 1953.
The largest of the Preservation Society's mansions, The Breakers. The Preservation Society of Newport County is a private, non-profit organization based in Newport, Rhode Island. It is Rhode Island's largest and most-visited cultural organization.
The massive mansion, home to tobacco heiress Doris Duke, is now free for Newport County residents and has a new look. More than a 'fancy house': How Newport's Rough Point mansion gives back to the ...
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The gate at The Breakers. Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased the grounds in 1885 for $450,000 (equivalent to $15.7 million in 2024). [4] The previous mansion on the property was owned by Pierre Lorillard IV; it burned on November 25, 1892, and Vanderbilt commissioned famed architect Richard Morris Hunt to rebuild it in splendor.
Rough Point viewed from the Newport Cliff Walk Rough Point music room. Rough Point is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a museum. It is an English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbilt. [1]