"Sunset Ridge" (Newport, Rhode Island)

 cottage, estate (manor / mansion land), demolished, historical layer / disappeared object

* Low-Ledyard Estate
* Architect: George Champlin Mason
* Located on Ridge Road
* Demolished: 1955

Built by the very social cottage architect George Champlin Mason, Sunset Ridge was the summer residence of prominent retired China Trade merchant Abiel Abbot Low of New York. Set at the top of a ridge overlooking the East Passage of Narragansett Bay, the house’s broad verandah provided romantic views. Inherited by Seth Low, President of Columbia University and former Mayor of Brooklyn, the estate remained in the family until its purchase by Lewis Cass Ledyard of New York in 1905. The property was eventually joined with that of Broadlawns to the south. To reduce tax valuations, Sunset Ridge was demolished in 1955.

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