Bois Dore (1927) (Newport, Rhode Island)

USA / Rhode Island / Newport / Newport, Rhode Island / Narragansett Avenue, 115
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1927 Classic French style
Designed by Charles Platt for William Fahnestock, son of Harris C. Fahnestock,
(Fahnestock Viner, which traces it's lineage back to Harris C. Fahnestock, an investment banker who was a founding member of one of Citigroup's predecessors, the First National Bank of New York, and financial adviser to President Abraham Lincoln)

by Charles A. Platt, 1927. French XVIII- Century chateau style; limestone facing; two-and-one-half stories with a hipped roof having dormers; slightly projected entrance with foliate carving above; segmental- headed windows.

[prior estate on this lot - Oaklawn, James Stillman, 1907 map] www.historicmapworks.com/Overlay/?m=18610&c=US
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Coordinates:   41°28'29"N   71°18'18"W

Comments

  • A bit of its history can be found at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/garden/28dollie.html?pagewanted=print
  • notes - Bois Doré (Gilded Forest or Golden Woods), Elinor Dorrance Hill and Nathaniel Peter Hill http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the-last-great-lady/6/
  • The Former Residence of Oil Heiress Carolyn Skelly from 1978 to 1996
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