Le Chalet (Newport, Rhode Island)

USA / Rhode Island / Newport / Newport, Rhode Island / Bellevue Avenue, 665
 place with historical importance, cottage, mansion / manor house / villa
(1869 – 1870) - Aka Resthaven
Architect : Richard Morris Hunt
• Prominent China Trade merchant and financier John N.A. Griswold owned several properties on Bellevue Avenue as investments. He commissioned Richard Hunt to build this Stick Style villa, which he sold, fully furnished, upon its completion to the New York widow Anna Gilbert.
• Anna Gilbert’s son, Charles Pierrepont Gilbert, was a New York architect who trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He and his wife, Clara, summered at Resthaven until 1916.
• The house has had several owners and remains a private residence.

[Sold on 12/10/09: $1,690,000]
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Coordinates:   41°27'25"N   71°18'24"W
This article was last modified 9 years ago