"The Windmill" (Newport, Rhode Island)

 house, windmill

"The Windmill was completed in 1967 and is where Hugh's half sister,Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight, one of Jackie's bridesmaids who is also Gore Vidal's half sister, often passes her summer holidays away from D.C.

While Nina's towering retreat is not an authentic functioning windmill, the structure is not without novelty and charm. Like the Taj Mahal, it is a monument to love. Nina's father had it built for his wife, Janet as a silver anniversary gift. Making the gift all the more poignant was the fact that The Windmill was the artistic creation of Janet's daughter, Jackie Kennedy. "My father asked all the children to make a sketch, and Jackie's was the best," Yusha explains. The famed Providence architect Tillinghast turned Jackie's whimsy into reality, constructing a four-level, 100-foot high "windmill", which sleeps six comfortably and boasts an elevator and observation deck."

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