Honeysuckle Lodge - Masonlea (1885) (Newport, Rhode Island)

 house, place with historical importance, cottage, estate (manor / mansion land), Queen Anne style (architecture)

Honeysuckle Lodge, and its carriage house, built in 1885 as an oceanfront summer cottage estate for Josiah M. Fiske, a flour merchant and bank director of Boston and New York. Originally named “Mason Lea,” the house was designed by the firm of Peabody and Stearns, with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmstead. In 1909 the house was owned by T. Suffern Tailer, gentleman sportsman and golf enthusiast, who was married to Mary Lorillard of the tobacco family that built the first “Breakers” and “Vinland," also designed by Peabody and Stearns. In the 1960s, small private schools occupied several mansions including the for Girls at Honeysuckle Lodge.

Queen Anne-cum-Shingle styles; wide, rectangular structure of two-and-one-half stories under sweeping cross-gabled roofs; wall cover of stone and shingle; varied and grouped window treatment; recessed north entrance under now removed porte-cochere.

[older maps, 1907 as Masonlea, Mrs. George W. Collard, 1897 as Masonlea, Josiah M. Fiske Est.]

Currently on the market for $12,900,000 (October 2019)