Castlewood (Newport, Rhode Island)

 place with historical importance, mansion / manor house / villa, demolished, historical layer / disappeared object

Built 1905 for Louis Bruguiere
Architect: Edward Payson Whitman
Demolished for military housing.

Dominating the highest point of land at Coddington Point, this white-trimmed brick Neoclassical style villa was visible from all of southern Narragansett Bay. Louis Bruguiere of California incorporated the remnants of an eighteenth-century battery thought to have been erected by the Comte de Rochambeau into the formal gardens. The interior featured high-style French reception rooms in Renaissance and Louis XV taste. Castlewood was subsequently converted into an orphanage, The Mercy Home and School, and demolished by the U.S. Government for World War II public housing for workers of the Newport torpedo and naval ordinance factories

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