"Seaview Terrace" (Newport, Rhode Island)

USA / Rhode Island / Newport / Newport, Rhode Island / Ruggles Avenue
 residence, country house, historic remains, French Renaissance (architecture)
The American League of Architects awarded Howard Greenley a medal for the design of Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bradley's sprawling French Renaissance manor house, one of the last of Newport's immense Gilded Age summer palaces to be built. Conceptualized in 1923 and opened in 1925, the Bradley home became known as "Seaview Terrace". A pre-existing Elizabethan residence known as "Seaview" (1885) formerly owned by James Kernochan, was incorporated into Greenley's design. In keeping with its seaside location, the 65-room manor house features turrets, stained-glass windows, high, arching doorways and shell motifs that adorn the facade. Rooms imported intact from France were moved from the Bradley's home in Washington, D.C. to Newport, and reassembled with the chateau constructed around them.

The Bradley's daughter, Mrs. Julia Bradley Fox, took over the estate and lived there until the late 1930s with her husband Rt. Rev. Herbert Shipman, protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York and World War I Army chaplain. It has been used as World War II Army officers' quarters, an exclusive girls' school and as an exterior set for "Collinswood" on the cult classic television show, Dark Shadows. Purchased in 1974 by the Carey family of New York and renamed Carey Mansion, it recently served as an academic facility and student residence for Salve Regina University. The 1980's in Newport belonged to the America’s Cup. Led by Ca. Dennis Connor, the American syndicate resided at "Seaview Terrace" during their reign. The remainder of the year the house was leased to Salve Regina University as a musical conservatory, educational facility and student residence until 2009.

The Carey family now continues their vision of restoring this architectural gem to the grandeur it deserves.

www.seaviewterrace.org
archive.org/details/artsdecoration2021newy/page/n188/mo...
digitalcollections.smu.edu/u?/ryr,387


www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRXsU3N179I
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey_Mansion
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Coordinates:   41°28'3"N   71°18'13"W

Comments

  • great job including the vid here, classic :)
  • This shows the original property outline according to the Newport Map of 1907. The original house was built @1879 by George Champlin Mason for James Powell Kernochan. John Dixon Johnston remodeled the house in 1887. The original house was demolished prior to 1923 when Howard Greenley built the existing "SeavIew Terrace" for Edson J. Bradley.
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