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Executive board of Women's League, Newport, Rhode Island. Dickerson was born on October 22, 1830, in Haddam, Connecticut. [1] She grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. [1] [2] Dickerson and her husband, Silas, moved to Newport, Rhode Island, sometime around 1865. [2] She opened a dressmaking shop in the early 1870s.
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, native of Newport who became a conservationist, Progressive politician, women’s rights activist, and First Lady of Pennsylvania; Cynthia Taggart, poet; Charles C. Van Zandt, 34th Governor of Rhode Island [3]
Roughly bounded by Broadway, Memorial Blvd., Whitfield Pl., Champlin & Sherman Sts., Rhode Island, Prairie & Gibbs Ave., 41°29′23″N 71°18′19″W / 41.489722°N 71.305278°W / 41.489722; -71.305278 ( Kay Street–Catherine Street–Old Beach Road Historic
Maude Alice Keteltas Wetmore (February 7, 1873 – November 3, 1951) was an American political organizer and historical preservationist, based in Newport, Rhode Island. She and her sister lived in the Wetmore family mansion, Chateau-sur-Mer , now a museum in Newport.
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 wedding to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy in September, 1953.
The commission was given to McKim, Mead, and White in 1898, and the New York branch of Jules Allard and Sons were engaged as interior decorators. Construction started in 1899, but the sharp winter slowed construction; Mrs. Oelrichs' sister had married William K. Vanderbilt II that winter season, and the house was required for parties in the following Newport season; the eager Mrs. Oelrichs ...
The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the Gilded Age mansions built as summer retreats around the turn of the 20th century by the extremely wealthy, including the Vanderbilt and Astor families.
The Kay Street–Catherine Street–Old Beach Road Historic District is a historic district in Newport, Rhode Island.The area is located north of Newport's well-known Bellevue Avenue, and encompasses an area that was developed residentially between about 1830 and 1890, for the most part before the Gilded Age mansions were built further south.