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Newport, Rhode Island recent comments:

  • The Whim, buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    oatsie charles. Marshall Field money. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/05/jamie-johnson-o.html
  • Oakwood Estate, buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    recently owned by Peter and Lana de Savary
  • The Ledges - Cushing Family Compound, buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    he is presidt of the bailey's beach
  • Seaweed (1860-61), buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    previously owned by the Berl family
  • "Seafair", buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    In another deal this month, Richard Bready, chairman and chief executive of Nortek Inc., a Providence, R.I., building products company, agreed to buy Sea Fair for $2.95 million -- more than the $2.7 million asking price and the highest sale price for a Newport home since 1992. I think this is from late 90's
  • Ocean Lawn, buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    The estate, the former home of the late rubber executive Harvey C. Firestone, finally sold last year for $1.7 million, down 23 percent from its initial asking price. Pittsburgh investor Robert Chute, who bought the house, says he looked at the Hamptons and Nantucket, but "when I had an opportunity to get Harvey Firestone's house, I loved the history of the whole thing."
  • Hammersmith Farm, buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    In 1999, it sold for over $8 million to Peter Kiernan, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, who converted the home back to private use
  • Ocean Lawn, buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    recently owned by the firestone family.
  • Miramar, buffalobill (guest) wrote 15 years ago:
    sold recently to David B. Ford who paid $17.15 million for the 8-acre oceanfront chateau, the most ever paid for a residence on Aquidneck Island. It had been owned since 1971 by real estate developer Andrew Panteleakis. david ford is a retired partner from goldman sachs
  • Clarendon Court, Tparkin70 wrote 16 years ago:
    She died in December of 2008
  • Salve Regina University, BobCobb (guest) wrote 16 years ago:
    When it was chartered in 1934 it was called "College".
  • Quatrel (1855), buffalobill (guest) wrote 16 years ago:
    listed for sale for 2.2 mm. sothebys realty
  • Hopedene, ashoeguru wrote 16 years ago:
    Featured in the book 'Private Newport' by Bettie Bearden Paradee
  • The Waves, Marc (guest) wrote 16 years ago:
    Built by John Russell Pope, architect of Jefferson Memorial, National Gallery of Art, central piece of Museum of Natural History, etc., as his own residence upon the foundation of Lippitt's Castle, destroyed by fire.
  • Beachmound, Marc (guest) wrote 16 years ago:
    Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. Upon seeing Palm Beach's Mar-a-Lago, now home of Donald J. Trump, he is reported to have said, "My God, I shot the wrong architect."
  • Touro Synagogue National Historic Site (1763), Chucky (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    the oldest Synagogue in America
  • Hammersmith Farm, chucky (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    How much it was sold anyway, it's probably the most expensive house in Newport
  • Fort Adams State Park, chucky (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    music festival was held here every summer,jazz,folk,blue,and rock'rolling
  • The Elms - Berwind House (1898-1901), chucky (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    It also the best wedding place for newly married couple
  • Newport Gateway Center, chucky (guest) wrote 17 years ago:
    information center about Newport