Roslyn (Newport, Rhode Island)
USA /
Rhode Island /
Newport /
Newport, Rhode Island /
Beacon Hill Road, 20-26
World
/ USA
/ Rhode Island
/ Newport
World / United States / Rhode Island
place with historical importance, estate (manor / mansion land)
Roslyn, the William Grosvenor House (1890-91 et seq.; William Ralph Emerson, architect):
A spreading and impressive 2½-story house with a substantial, high, yet low-slung hip roof enveloping the carefully modulated rectangular-plan mass. Circular-plan conical-roof towers dominate the façade and frame the shed-roof porch that stretches between them. Regularly placed 6-over-1 and 8-over-1 windows punctuate the contained mass, whose symmetry is broken only minimally by the staircase window on the western tower, the octagonal-plan projection at the northwest corner, and the four stout stone chimneys, that at the eastern end of the south elevation with a round-arch opening.
Grosvenor (1833-1906), was a Providence-based businessman whose wealth had been accumulated in textile manufacturing, notably the Grosvenor-Dale Company in Thompson, CT.
(polygon represents original estate boundaries, main house is at 20-26 Beacon Hill Road)
A spreading and impressive 2½-story house with a substantial, high, yet low-slung hip roof enveloping the carefully modulated rectangular-plan mass. Circular-plan conical-roof towers dominate the façade and frame the shed-roof porch that stretches between them. Regularly placed 6-over-1 and 8-over-1 windows punctuate the contained mass, whose symmetry is broken only minimally by the staircase window on the western tower, the octagonal-plan projection at the northwest corner, and the four stout stone chimneys, that at the eastern end of the south elevation with a round-arch opening.
Grosvenor (1833-1906), was a Providence-based businessman whose wealth had been accumulated in textile manufacturing, notably the Grosvenor-Dale Company in Thompson, CT.
(polygon represents original estate boundaries, main house is at 20-26 Beacon Hill Road)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°28'6"N 71°19'48"W
- Beacon Hill Estate 0.7 km
- Surprise Valley Farm, Swiss Village (SVF Foundation) 0.8 km
- Berry Hill (1885) 1.1 km
- Wrentham House (Indian Spring) 1.3 km
- Indian Spring, the LeRoy King House / King-Glover-Bradley Plat 1.3 km
- Broadlawns 2.2 km
- Shamrock Cliff - OceanCliff 2.4 km
- Bateman-Davis Estate / Bateman's Hotel 2.5 km
- Brenton Point State Park - The Reef 2.7 km
- Castle Hill Inn & Resort 2.8 km
- Ballard Park (1990) 0.5 km
- Rogers High School 0.7 km
- Moorland Farm Condominiums 1 km
- Gooseneck Cove 1 km
- Fort Adams Naval Housing 1 km
- Hammersmith Farm 1.3 km
- Avalon 1.5 km
- Newport Country Club (1894-95 et seq.) 1.7 km
- 'Avalon' Hunting Grounds 1.8 km
- Newport County, Rhode Island 12 km