Weetamoe (Newport, Rhode Island)
USA /
Rhode Island /
Newport /
Newport, Rhode Island /
Bellevue Avenue
World
/ USA
/ Rhode Island
/ Newport
World / United States / Rhode Island
place with historical importance, cottage, mansion / manor house / villa
(c. 1872)
Architects : Peabody and Stearns
• Alfred Smith owned much of the farmland along Bellevue Avenue and promoted the area in the mid-19th century as a fashionable summer resort. He subdivided lots and encouraged the cottage construction boom during the 1870s.
• He sold the site of Weetamoe to Hannah Swift, who hired the prominent Boston firm of Peabody and Stearns to build her Stick Style cottage.
• Nathaniel Thayer III, grandson of a noted Massachusetts clergyman, purchased the house in 1902. The Frazer family eventually named it Catnip Cottage.
• The house remains a private residence.
www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=48616
Architects : Peabody and Stearns
• Alfred Smith owned much of the farmland along Bellevue Avenue and promoted the area in the mid-19th century as a fashionable summer resort. He subdivided lots and encouraged the cottage construction boom during the 1870s.
• He sold the site of Weetamoe to Hannah Swift, who hired the prominent Boston firm of Peabody and Stearns to build her Stick Style cottage.
• Nathaniel Thayer III, grandson of a noted Massachusetts clergyman, purchased the house in 1902. The Frazer family eventually named it Catnip Cottage.
• The house remains a private residence.
www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=48616
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°27'33"N 71°18'24"W
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- Broadlawns 4.3 km
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- Almy Pond 0.5 km
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- Lily Pond 1.2 km
- The Breakers 1.4 km
- Chateau-sur-Mer (1851–1852) 1.4 km
- Rogers High School 1.6 km
- Salve Regina University 1.7 km
- Ballard Park (1990) 1.7 km
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