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Newport, Rhode Island recent comments:

  • Cadwallader cottage, amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The original cottage was built in 1853 and destroyed by fire in 1958. The Roselawn Cottage property was never a part of the Cadwallader estate.
  • New Cliffs Hotel and Cottages, Arthur Menaldi (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The original hotel and cottages were built before 1876. (cf. Map of Newport, RI 1876)
  • White Lodge, amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    White Lodge (Maycroft Villa) was built by architect George Champlin Mason (1820-1894) for Henry Sigourney. It was later owned by Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy and David King.
  • Sunnylea (1881 – 1882), amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The original property included the land to the west, now 100 Coggeshall Avenue.
  • Sunnylea (1881 – 1882), amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The original "Sunnylea" was built before 1876. That house was demolished and rebuilt by Dudley Newton for the Chickerings before 1883.
  • Ocean Lawn, amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    "Southside" was originally located in the southwest corner of the property and incorporated what is now the pool house. It was built before 1876 by Robert Hale Ives. Alterations in 1898 were attributed to McKim, Mead & White.
  • Seaweed (1860-61), amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The house was purchased by George T.M. Davis before 1870 and left to Chester Hasbrouck Davis who sold it after 1876. Alfred Smith purchased the house before 1883 as an investment. He sold the house before 1907 to Thomas Dolan.
  • "Seaview Terrace", amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    This shows the original property outline according to the Newport Map of 1907. The original house was built @1879 by George Champlin Mason for James Powell Kernochan. John Dixon Johnston remodeled the house in 1887. The original house was demolished prior to 1923 when Howard Greenley built the existing "SeavIew Terrace" for Edson J. Bradley.
  • Stargazer House, Arthur Menaldi (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The existing house built in 2008 replaced "Rosevale" built in 1876 for Charles Handy Russell (1796-1884)
  • Ridgemere (1897-1898), Arthur Menaldi (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The original house was built before 1876. It was replaced in 1898 by Peabody & Stearns for Jonathon Hone Foster, Fanny's father. The style is Victorian/Queen Anne with Colonial Revival details.
  • Quatrefoil, Arthur Menaldi (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The house was shown as extant on the 1876 Newport map. The property was subdivided from Charles H. Handy's estate "Oak Lawn," now the site of "Bois Dore'."
  • Ochre Court, Arthur Menaldi (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The original house on this property was built in 1870 by George Champlin Mason for Joseph Frederick Kernochan (1818-1903). The house was demolished in 1888 when Richard Morris Hunt began construction of Ochre Court for Ogden Goelet (1851-1897).
  • Oakwood Estate, Arthur Menaldi (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The original house was built in 1854 by architect Detlief Lienau for John Carey, Sr.
  • Seaward (North House), Arthur Menaldi (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The house does not show on any Newport map before 1893. The photo shown is "Ocean Lawn" built in 1851 by Richard Upjohn--it is not North Cottage.
  • Castle Hill Inn & Resort, amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The architect was ROBERT H. Slack, not Charles H. Slack
  • 25 Price's Neck Road, amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The main house was called "Sea Cove" or "The Fo'Castle." It was built between 1893-1898 for a William Murray. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Ocean Drive Historic District #83). The original vacant land was first owned by John Noble Alsop Griswold (until @ 1893) and then by Robert Lenox Kennedy who must have sold the property to Murray.
  • Rockledge, amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The house was built for Jessie L. Neilson between 1893 and 1907.
  • Crow’s Nest (ca 1915 et seq.), amenaldi wrote 8 years ago:
    The Newport 1893 map shows this as vacant land. The Newport 1907 map shows this as belonging to E. Walter Histed (so built between 1893 and 1907). It was originally referred to as "Waterlot."
  • Bois Dore (1927), Bobby Kelley (guest) wrote 8 years ago:
    The Former Residence of Oil Heiress Carolyn Skelly from 1978 to 1996
  • Roselawn, Lorrie Schilling wrote 8 years ago:
    The Pierson's also owned nearby "AnglSea"; http://thegildedageera.blogspot.com/2013/01/anglsea-estate-newport-ri.html