Newport, Rhode Island recent comments:

Rock Cliff had its name changed from "New Lodge" as shown on the Newport map of 1907.

The gatehouse photo may actually be the gatehouse at Roselawn in Poughkeepsie, NY. Mrs. George Hull was not actually a member of the 400, Her parents, the J. Frederick Pierson, Srs. were members.

I don't recall there ever being a gate house mentioned. My family purchased their winter house in Short Hills Nj.

What years were you there? I am best friends with Amie Sadi and I reconnected with Charlotte thompson. Both at Miramar. Where do you live now.

Roselyn I went to school there too. I am glad you have good memories of Miramar. I loved the ocean part of the thing however because of polio I hated being away from my mom even at that age I felt so lost without her. I ran away.

Curious, ironic. Gill's best work in California is now gone. It seems the Mason family knew how to pick architects

Both the Newport Map of 1876 as well as the 1907 map show the structure as part of the Stoneacre property.

In 1876, the almost 4-acre site was owned by Washington Jackson. (Newport Map 1876)

Built as the summer villa of Mary Frick Garrett (later Mrs. H. Barton Jacobs), the widow of Robert Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Whiteholme was the first residential commission of the celebrated architect John Russell Pope. The architect placed a new French Classical villa in front of and encasing the existing 1862 Stick Style Travers House by Richard Morris Hunt, creating, in the process an unusual L-shaped stucco over brick structure. The urbane French interiors were sub-contracted to Allard & Sons, of Paris and New York, and the formal statuary-filled garden was noted for its compact geometry. Whiteholme was sold in 1944 for $26,000 to its final private owners, the Phillips family of Newport. Acquired by Salve Regina College, this major estate was demolished in April of 1963 for the construction of a modern student residence and dining facility.

In 1921, the Gallatins acquired the property to the west (corner of Clay & Ward) belonging to George Henry Warren. They demolished the house built in 1861 by Geo. Champlin Mason, and incorporated the land in to Chepstow.

Nimitz Hall is the approximate location of the E.S. Philbrick cottage built on Coddington Point in 1876 by architect Samuel J. Brown. It was donated to the City of Newport in 1918 for the new Naval Station.

According to the Newport 1907 map, "Castlewood" occupied the approx. ten-acre site south of Maple Avenue and East of Girard Avenue.

This is probably the site of "Castlewood", the Emile A. Brugiere estate. Built in 1905 for his wife, Josephine (Sather) and her son, Louis Sather Bruguiere by architect Edward Payson Whitman. After her death in the sinking of the White Star Line "Arabic", the house was subsequently sold to several owners and finally demolished in the 1940s for Naval public housing.

The porter's lodge (Gate House) by Richard Morris Hunt was located at 381 Gibbs Avenue.

The house was demolished in the 1950's after a fire and the property subdivided for contemporary homes.

Some confusion here. I have uploaded a photo from the NY Public Library of the Roselawn Gate House. None of these three seem to be of the same house. Is there another "Roselawn" in Newport?

W.F. Whitehouse died at 73 in 1919. His NYC residence was at 9 East 82nd Street. He also owned a palatial residence in Chicago, designed @1881 by William Appleton Potter.

Built around 1892 for Samuel Wetmore. He also owned Needwood on Parker Avenue.

Attributed to architect Joseph Collins Wells, it was built for Joseph Hart @1850. It was later owned by Edwin Dennison Morgan III by 1876 (Newport Map 1876), until it was purchased by Richard Thornton Wilson before 1893 (Newport Map 1893). Morgan also owned Beacon Rock on Harrison Avenue, built by McKim, Mead & White in 1888.