Knight who originally named the house Claradon Court after his wife Clara. In 1902, the Stanford White designed Rosecliff was completed for Nevada silver heiress Theresa “Tessie” Fair Oelrichs who modeled her not particularly humble summer “cottage” on the Grand Trianon at Versailles.Īlthough a number of the more celebrated houses in Newport are now operated as museums that can be toured and ogled by the hoi polloi, there remain a number of significant and historic estates in private hands including Clarendon Court, a spectacular 7+acre estate with a striking yet somber Palladian style mansion that was recently heaved on to the market with an asking price of of $14,800,000.Ĭlarendon Court, designed by architect Horace Trumbauer, was built in 1904 for Pennsylvania Railroad executive Edward C. The Elms, designed by architect Horace Trumbauer as a near exact replica of the 18 th century Château d’Asnières on the outskirts of Paris, was completed in 1901 for coal mining magnate Edward Berwind who engaged the legendary Jules Allard et Fils of Paris do up the day-core. The hoity toities continued to build their colossal “cottages” well into the 20 th century. The hulking 5-story, Richard Morris Hunt designed Italian Renaissance confection measures 65,000 square feet with 70 rooms including a 50-foot square Great Hall with a 50 foot ceiling, 15 family bedrooms and more than 40 staff bedrooms. In 1895, yet another Vanderbilt–this time, Cornelius the Second–finished building The Breakers, the undisputed mac-daddy of all the Newport mansions that sits on 13+ acres of prime ocean front property.
Vanderbilt and set all the high society tongues a-wagging when she quickly moved her summer trousseau down the block from Marble House and into Belcourt. In 1895, Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt obtained a dee– vorce from William K. The entire ground floor of Belcourt was designed for use as carriage storage and 30-stall stable for Mister Belmont’s horses. There were, however, sleeping quarters for 33-full time staff. As originally designed, Belcourt included just 1 bedroom and 1 pooper. Mister Belmont, who named his quirky cottage Belcourt, was an heir to a family of financiers who came to the United States from France as representatives of the ridiculously rich Rothschild family. In 1894, a behemoth 60-room Louis XIII style hunting lodge, designed, natch, by Richard Morris Hunt, was erected for Oliver H.P. He died instantly and Miss Duke was not charged with any crime. Somehow Miss Duke, no doubt in a serious panic, managed to drag Mister Tirella’s body out the front gates of Rough Point, across the street and crush him to death against a tree. Scandal seems to stick to society types like white on rice and in 1966 Miss Duke famously, accidentally, and tragically plowed her modest station wagon into her decorator Eduardo Tirella in the driveway of Rough Point. Miss Duke inherited the property in 1925 at the tender age of twelve and although she used the ocean front estate very little in the 1940s and 50s, she reopened Rough Point in the early 1960s and occupied the house a good portion of each year until her death in 1993. In 1922 Rough Point was purchased by tobacco tycoon James Buchanan Duke–that’s the daddy of Doris–who hired high society architect Horace Trumbauer to renovate and expand the already huge house. The not at all cottage-like mansion, modeled on the Petit Trianon in Versailles, was designed by William Morris Hunt, one of the bon ton’s preferred and more prolific architects who not only designed a bunch of Newport’s most palatial piles but also maintained a Newport cottage of his own called Hypotenuse.Īnother of the Vanderbilt clan–Frederick William–also completed his summer cottage in 1892, the stoic Peabody and Stearns designed mansion known then and now as Rough Point. Vanderbilt as a 39 th birthday gift to his then wife Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt.
The illustrious, sprawling and sick rich Vanderbilt family built a number of the more significant mansions in Newport including Marble House, a gargantuan and outrageously opulent monster completed in 1892 by William K.
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