Zee Rust (Newport, Rhode Island) | place with historical importance

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Zee Rust, built by Arthur Curtiss James/Hubert Vos House (1915-19, 1951 et seq.; Grosvenor Atterbury, architect; Olmsted Brothers, landscape architects):

A large, rambling, extended-E-plan, 2½-story stucco house with extensive terraces on the east elevation, irregularly placed late 20th-century 1-over-1 windows and large plate-glass windows on the east elevation’s 1st story, complex high-hip/crossgable/jerkinhead-gable roof; and large central chimney.

James, who had owned this property since the early years of the 20th century, built this house, perhaps with Vos’s tenancy in mind, for the plans the Olmsteds developed in 1915-16 are labeled “Arthur Curtiss James, Artist’s Lot.” It was the summer home of Dutch-born artist Hubert Vos (1855-1935), an internationally known if somewhat minor painter who lived principally in New York in his later years. Vos was an avid amateur gardener who here created an extensive naturalistic landscape, influenced by exemplars he knew from extensive travel in China and Japan, between 1915 and the late 1920s. In the 1950s, this became the property of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (see 75 Brenton Road).