Kingscote (mansion)
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| Kingscote | |
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| Location: | Newport, Rhode Island, United States |
| Built/Founded: | 1839 |
| Architect: | Richard Upjohn[1] |
| Designated as NHL: | 19 June 1996[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | 17 May 1973[1] |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73000058[1] |
| Governing body: | Preservation Society of Newport County |
Kingscote is a Gothic Revival house museum in Newport, Rhode Island built in 1839. Kingscote was one of the first mansions or summer "cottages" constructed in Newport and currently, the Preservation Society of Newport County owns the house museum.
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[edit] History
George Noble Jones, a southern plantation owner, constructed this Gothic Revival style summer cottage along a farm path known as Bellevue Avenue. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, the Jones family permanently left Newport, and the house was sold in 1864 to William Henry King, an Old China Trade merchant . King's nephew David inherited and enlarged the house in 1876. He hired McKim, Mead and White to renovate the house in conjunction with Louis Comfort Tiffany. The King family owned the house until 1972, when the last descendant deeded it to the Preservation Society. Today, Kingscote is a National Historic Landmark (NHL) and a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, also an NHL. The house is a rare survivor of a Gothic Revival house and landscape with original family furnishings still remaining.[2]
[edit] Gallery
 Richard Upjohn's original 1839 watercolor of Kingscote, as seen from the southwest. |
 HABS photo of the front (southern) elevation. |
 The eastern elevation. |
 A detail of the front entrance. |
 The entrance hall. |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
- ^ The Preservation Society of Newport County - Online Ticket Center
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