Whitehall (Newport, Rhode Island)

 place with historical importance, cottage, estate (manor / mansion land), demolished

David H. King Jr. Estate
Architects: McKim, Mead & White
Located at the corner of Catherine Street and Rhode Island Avenue
Demolished: 1953

Whitehall was built by McKim, Mead & White, in their newly popular Colonial Revival style, for a favorite client, New York building contractor and developer David H. King. In 1903, the estate was purchased by New York real-estate baron John Jay Coogan and used in season by his family until seriously damaged by fire on March 10, 1911. Due to the remodeling of the family's Fifth Avenue residence, restoration work in Newport was postponed. With the 1915 death of Mr. Coogan, the house remained unoccupied. Although the family remained sentimentally attached to the estate, major repairs never advanced and led to the pervasive legend that the Coogans had been snubbed socially, having issued invitations for a dinner party to which no one came! In point of fact, the popular Mrs. Coogan was a great-granddaughter of John Lyon Gardiner and inherited from his estate a very large section of the upper end of Manhattan. The home was demolished in 1953 for a residential subdivision.

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