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2. Miramar (mansion) - Wikipedia

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   Miramar is a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) French neoclassical-style mansion on 7.8 acres (32,000 m 2) bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Overlooking Rhode Island Sound, it was intended as a summer home for the George D. Widener family of Philadelphia .

3. Beechwood (Astor mansion) - Wikipedia

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   Beechwood is a Gilded Age mansion and estate located at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island best known for having been owned by the Astor family.Part of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, the first version of the residence was built between 1852 and 1853 and designed in the Italianate style by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux.

4. Hammersmith Farm - Wikipedia

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   Hammersmith Farm. Coordinates: 41.469109°N 71.346062°W. Entrance to Main house of Hammersmith Farm in October, 1989. Hammersmith Farm is a Victorian 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 ...

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   The property was in the spotlight in 2018 when it was up for sale for $825,000 and later in ... Rhode Island, who fled Newport when an effigy of him was hanged in front of the Colony House ...

6. Belcourt of Newport - Wikipedia

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   Belcourt of Newport. / 41.45750; -71.30627. Belcourt is a former summer cottage designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont and located on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Construction was begun in 1891 and completed in 1894, and it was intended to be used for only six to eight weeks of the year.

7. The Breakers - Wikipedia

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   December 8, 1972. The Breakers is a Gilded Age mansion located at 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, US. It was built between 1893 and 1895 as a summer residence for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy Vanderbilt family . The 70-room mansion, with a gross area of 138,300 square feet (12,850 m 2) and 62,482 square feet ...