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One of Newport's oldest mansions, Beaulieu was originally built in 1859 by the Peruvian merchant, Federico Barreda, who made his money in the 1850s guano trade. [ a ] [ 3 ] Beaulieu was designed for Barreda by New York architect Calvert Vaux , who also designed the bridges in New York's Central Park . [ 4 ]
Rough Point viewed from the Newport Cliff Walk Rough Point music room Rough Point is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island , now open to the public as a museum. It is an English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbilt . [ 1 ]
Horsehead/Marbella is an historic summer house at 240 Highland Drive in Jamestown, Rhode Island.Occupying a spectacular setting on a southerly-projecting peninsula, this Shingle style house and carriage house were designed by Charles L. Bevins and built for industrialist Joseph Wharton in the 1880s.
Villarrubio, Cuenca, Spain Gianni Brera: 1919 1992 73 years Italian sports journalist and novelist car Codogno, Lodi, Italy Jim Brewer: 1937 1987 50 years American baseball player car Tyler, Texas: Died of his injuries after. Michel Brière: 1949 1971 21 years Canadian NHL player car Mercury Cougar: Quebec Route 117, Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada
Early 20th Century photograph of oyster beds on the Newport River. The Newport River is a small river in North Carolina that runs approximately twelve miles (twenty kilometers) southeast through the town of Newport with its mouth opening into Bogue Sound, between Morehead City and Beaufort. It is popular for flatwater paddling and canoeing. [1 ...
The footprint of the house covers approximately one acre (0.4 hectares) or 43,000 square feet of the 14-acre (5.7-hectare) estate on the cliffs overlooking Easton Bay of the Atlantic Ocean. [ 3 ] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
Caleb B. Gardner (April 27, 1741 – December 24, 1806) of Newport, Rhode Island, was an American slave trader and slavery oligarch. He was the owner or part share owner of more than a dozen slave trade vessels.
Riverside Boulevard looking south from 69th Street. In the 1980s, the developer Donald Trump, who owned 57 acres (230,000 m 2) of a Penn Central freight rail yard south of Riverside Park, proposed a large real estate development project. [222]