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Kingscote is a Gothic Revival mansion and house museum at Bowery Street and Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Richard Upjohn and built in 1839. As one of the first summer "cottages" constructed in Newport, it is now a National Historic Landmark.
Kingscote is a landmark of the Gothic Revival style in American architecture. Its appearance in Newport marked the beginning of the “cottage boom” that would distinguish the town as a veritable laboratory for the design of picturesque houses throughout the 19th century. Learn more about Kingscote.
May 17 – June 28, 2024. Fans of HBO’s "The Gilded Age" will love this guide-led tour of locations in four of the Newport Mansions where the show was filmed. Tuesdays and Fridays only, May 17 through June 28. Lecture at Rosecliff. Eclectic and Independent: Black Self-Advocacy Strategies, 1870 to 1930. June 6, 2024 6:00pm – 7:00pm.
Kingscote is a landmark of the Gothic Revival style in American architecture. Its appearance in Newport marked the beginning of the "cottage boom" that would distinguish the town as a veritable laboratory for the design of picturesque houses throughout the 19th century.
- 253 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, 02840, RI
- (401) 847-1000
A Lovely Summer Home. Although much less grand than the Gilded Age mansions, this is a great place to start your tour of the historic homes of Newport. Built before the Civil War, it is a perfectly restored example of the earliest elegant summer homes in Newport.
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Her article examines the McKim, Mead and White dining room at Kingscote mansion (1881), in Newport, Rhode Island, as a multisensorial space associated with the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in the United States.
Newport, Rhode Island, boasts mansions of two types these days: those that are museums open to the public, and those that are still private summer residences of the rich and famous. The Breakers, grandest of Newport's grand mansions. With many of Newport's most sumptuous, palatial mansions open to the public, you may think that Newport's Golden ...
