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Sep 26, 2020 · A visionary builder, David took on a monumental project in his restoration of Miramar, a neoclassical estate on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, RI. A relentless wanderer, he explored every corner...
Sep 2, 2021 · Miramar, for example, was purchased for $17.15 million in 2006 and subsequently restored by former Goldman Sachs banker David B. Ford, who died in September 2020. The house is rumored to be...
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Oct 27, 2012 · Miramar passed through many hands, eventually ending up in David B Ford's. He is now immersed in a restoration renovation with John Tschirch (architectural historian at the Preservation Society of Newport).
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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.
Sep 20, 2020 · David B. Ford, age 74, passed away peacefully in the early hours of Sunday morning, September 20, 2020, with his wife, Pamela, at his side. He died of complications related to his battle with a rare and aggressive cancer. While his life may have ended prematurely, he lived it to its fullest.
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Aug 20, 2023 · It was purchased then by retired Goldman Sachs partner David B. Ford and at the time was the most expensive single family home ever sold in the State of Rhode Island. Miramar was last sold in 2021 for an undisclosed price.
